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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“People of this world are deluded. They’re always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons. All phenomena are empty. They contain nothing worth desiring.”
― The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
― The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Words! Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today.”
― Hsin-Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind
― Hsin-Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
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