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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

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To a Butterfly
By William Wordsworth

I’ve watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly! Indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless! - not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!

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Filmed at Xcaret, the Riviera Maya, Mexico. Uploaded by JCVdude. Music by Emerson Antoniacomi

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There is a famous story about Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) the Taoist master. One night he dreamed that he was a butterfly fluttering around from flower to flower. It had all been so real that when he awoke he was quite surprised to find that he was a human being. And then the thought struck him, “Was I really dreaming I was a butterfly, or am I actually a butterfly dreaming that I’m a man?”

Chuang Tzu and a Butterfly

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