

“All attempts to create something admirable are the weapons of evil. You may think you are practising benevolence and righteousness, but in effect you will be creating a kind of artificiality. Where a model exists, copies will be made of it; where success has been gained, boasting follows; where debate exists, there will be outbreaks of hostility.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

“The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.”
― Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
― Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters

“The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.”
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“You forget your feet when the shoes are comfortable. You forget your waist when the belt is comfortable. Understanding forgets right and wrong when the mind is comfortable. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. You begin with what is comfortable and never experience what is uncomfortable when you know the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

“To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
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