Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?
ZHUANGZIMy opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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A path is made by walking on it.
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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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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.
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The saying goes, ‘The sage rests, truly rests and is at ease.’ This manifests itself in calmness and detachment, so that worries and distress cannot affect him, nothing unpleasant can disturb him, his Virtue is complete and his spirit is not stirred up.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
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The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
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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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When I talk about having good hearing, I don’t mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don’t mean just looking, but looking at yourself.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.
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