Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
ZhuangziMen do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
ZhuangziBeing is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?
ZhuangziJoy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?
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