“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. —Henry Adams”
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. —Frank Zappa”
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
“We must go to the roots of a problem and not invest too much energy fiddling with the symptoms. We shall never get whites and blacks, or Orientals and Occidentals, to unite by trying to tie the different branches of the human tree together with string. Attention must instead be shifted to the stem and the root, where, under the surface, we are one. It will take much less time.”
― Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
― Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
“The nap also has a deserved reputation for its spiritual benefits. The founders of the great world religions were dedicated nappers, and indeed, it was during their roadside dozes that their visions often came. The nap is a sort of easy version of meditation. Jesus was an idler. Buddha was definitely an idler. —Tom Hodgkinson, How to be Idle”
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
― The Tao of the Dude: Awesome Insights of Deep Dudes from Lao Tzu to Lebowski
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