So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.
ZHUANGZIWhere can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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A path is made by walking on it.
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A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.
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Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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