“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
― In One Era & Out the Other
― In One Era & Out the Other
“the most basic Buddhist stance: sober examination of what lies before you, leaving aside all assumptions.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
“I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where there are machine worries, there are bound to be machine hearts. With a machine heart in your breast, you've spoiled what was pure and simple; and without the pure and simple, the life of the spirit knows no rest.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
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