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Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself. I had no idea I was Chuang Tzu. Then suddenly I woke up and was Chuang Tzu again. But I could not tell, had I been Chuang Tzu dreaming I was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I was now Chuang Tzu? However, there must be some sort of difference between Chuang Tzu and a butterfly!


Zhuangzi


#chuang-tzu #dreams #reality #taoism #dreams

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick. A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick.


Lao Tzu


#inspirational #macrobiotics #poetry #taoism #inspirational

When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.


Lao Tzu


#family

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.


Deng Ming-Dao


#go-with-the-flow #taoism #life

Life is serious...but you cannot take it seriously.


Peter Butterworth


#life

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.


Alan Wilson Watts


#tao #nature

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.


Alan Wilson Watts


#metaphysics #philosophy #religion #tao #taoism

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening


Zhuangzi


#existentialism #life #tao #taoism #death

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.


Deng Ming-Dao


#suffering #taoism #harmony

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.


Deng Ming-Dao


#fate #perseverance #taoism #wrestling #harmony