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Zhuangzi
Philosopher
Poet
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Peking
Zhuang Zi
Chuang Tzŭ
Chuang Tzu
Chuangtzŭ
Chuangtzu
Zhuang Zhou
Chuang Chou
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Butterfly

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Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
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When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
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The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.
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'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?'
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To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
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The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done.
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Never admire a man by his strength judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it
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The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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True men ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.
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Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?
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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.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.
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Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
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And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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