Those who are contented and at ease when the occasion comes and live in accord with the course of Nature cannot be affected by sorrow or joy. This is what the ancients called release from bondage. Those who cannot release themselves are so because they are bound by material things.

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Zhou, Zhuang. 莊子 [Zhuangzi]. c. 221 BC, ch. 6.