“Chuang-tzu: ‘‘The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing; it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep.”
― Become What You Are
― Become What You Are
“To be rooted within is to stay drunk on the inner spring of life, so the river keeps flowing. To be rooted is to remain in a flow state, unafraid of the winds.”
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“Lao Tzu once said, 'Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.'
A single seed planted, eventually becomes a garden in time – when things get tough, tend to the garden in your mind.”
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A single seed planted, eventually becomes a garden in time – when things get tough, tend to the garden in your mind.”
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“[T]he art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the currents, the seasons, and the principles of growth and decay, so that one's actions may use them and not fight them.”
― Tao: The Watercourse Way
― Tao: The Watercourse Way
“All those Zen Masters throwing young kids in the mud because they can’t answer their silly word questions.'
'That’s because they want them to realize mud is better than words, boy.”
― The Dharma Bums
'That’s because they want them to realize mud is better than words, boy.”
― The Dharma Bums
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