The struggle is great, the task divine—to gain mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility. —EPICTETUS
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“The purpose of ritual isn’t to win the gods over to our side (though that can’t hurt!). It’s to settle our bodies (and our minds) down when Fortune is our opponent on the other side of the net.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“To see people who will notice a need in the world and do something about it. . . . Those are my heroes. —FRED ROGERS”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“It takes real work to grasp what is invisible to just about everyone else.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“The best insights on enough come to us from the East. “When you realize there is nothing lacking,” Lao Tzu says, “the whole world belongs to you.” The verse in The Daodejing: The greatest misfortune is to not know contentment. The word calamity is the desire to acquire. And so those who know the contentment of contentment are always content.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“Suddenly,” Hakuin promised his students, “unexpectedly your teeth sink in. Your body will pour with cold sweat. At the instant, it will all become clear.” The word for this was satori—an illuminating insight when the inscrutable is revealed, when an essential truth becomes obvious and inescapable.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
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