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The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu Zhuangzi

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Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now 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, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu

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