Zhuangzi

Those who realize their folly are not true fools. ↗

— Zhuangzi

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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. ↗

— Zhuangzi

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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. ↗

— Zhuangzi

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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ↗

— Zhuangzi

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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? ↗

— Zhuangzi

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. ↗

— Zhuangzi

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I 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. ↗

— Zhuangzi

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