We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
ZHUANGZIMy opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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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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To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent – herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.
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Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
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We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.
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The World is Large – Its beauty indescrible.
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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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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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
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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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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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The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
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