“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
“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
“Indeed, one of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in interesting sights, sounds, places, and people. Conversely, one of the greatest pains is to be self-conscious, to feel unabsorbed and cut off from the community and the surrounding world.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
― The Wisdom of Insecurity
“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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