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Chuang Tzu

 

Chuang Tzu / Zhuangzi (370/369 – 287/286 BCE)

“You begin with what is comfortable and never experience what is uncomfortable when you know the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable.”

  • From Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings (section 19, “Mastering Life”), translated by Burton Watson. (Columbia University Press, 1996).

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