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“Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.” quote by Zhuangzi — Download Open image

“Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.”

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Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world,…

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

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If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing…

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If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things…

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As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear,…

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and…

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Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

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Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget…

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Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a…

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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

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To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that…

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A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

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Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty…

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

Barbara Bretton

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There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

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What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base…

Jean de la Bruyere

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally,…

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows…

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Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,…

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