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.
ZHUANGZIFor all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
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To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one’s true nature. Realization of one’s true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
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If one is true to one’s inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions.
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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only ‘certain’ standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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