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Chuang Tzu Quotes

«You will always find an answer in the sound of water.Chuang-Tse»
Author: Chuang Tzu
«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?»
Author: Chuang Tzu | About: Dreams | Keywords: awoke, butterfly, dreamed, dreamt, flit, flits, flitting
«Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.»
Author: Chuang Tzu | About: Happiness | Keywords: striving
«Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.»
Author: Chuang Tzu | Keywords: accepting, centered, flow
«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»
Author: Chuang Tzu | Keywords: butterfly
«If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.»
Author: Chuang Tzu | Keywords: faculties, lucidity, sage, speculum
«Those who realize their folly are not true fools»
Author: Chuang Tzu
«I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.»
Author: Chuang Tzu | Keywords: fishes, The River
«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.»
«Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.»
Author: Chuang Tzu | Keywords: contentious, petty