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.
ZHUANGZICan a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
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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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All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
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Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.
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The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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One whose inner being is fixed upon such greatness emits a Heavenly glow. Even though he has this Heavenly glow, others will see him as just a man. Someone who has reached this point will begin to be consistent.
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Fish live in water. Men die in it. Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.
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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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