Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
ZhuangziLet everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
ZhuangziTo have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
ZhuangziI do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
ZhuangziThe birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
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