Chuang Tzu

“If it gathers, there is life. If it scatters, there is death.”

“And if death and life are companions to each other, then what is there for us to be anxious about?”

“All things in creation come from one source and return to one source.”

“Therefore the sage values the One.”

“To be in harmony with the Way is to be in harmony with all things.”

“The Way is to man as rivers and lakes are to fish.”

“The natural condition of life is to be without anxiety.”

“He whose heart is in the smallest degree set upon goodness will dislike no one.”

“Great wisdom embraces all things.”

“Petty wisdom dissects.”

“Great speech is impassioned.”

“Petty speech is cantankerous.”

“What is right is right; what is not right is not right.”

“There is nothing that is not 'that'; there is nothing that is not 'this.'”

“Things cannot be regarded as such because they are so. They are so because they are regarded as such.”

“Therefore the sage harmonizes the right and the wrong, and rests in heaven the equalizer.”

“This is called following two courses at once.”

“To regard whatever happens as fitting is to be near the Way.”

“Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly.”