Zhuangzi Quotes - Page 2

Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there!

I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.