You are still guided by your expectations.
ZHUANGZIMy opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.
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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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The creature born is the creature dying.
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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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When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
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He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.
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Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
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If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
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True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear.
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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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Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
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Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.
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Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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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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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
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Silence, and non action are the root of all things.
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Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.
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The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.
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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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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
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