“If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“When we think about the remarkably early age at which the young men went up to the University in, let us say, Tudor times, and thereafter were held fit to assume responsibility for the conduct of their own affairs, are we altogether comfortable about that artificial prolongation of intellectual childhood and adolescence into the years of physical maturity which is so marked in our own day? To postpone the acceptance of responsibility to a late date brings with it a number of psychological complications which, while they may interest the psychiatrist, are scarcely beneficial either to the individual or to society.”
― The Lost Tools of Learning
― The Lost Tools of Learning
“Ours is an immutable reality which should make you shudder when you approach us if you are really conscious of the fact that your reality is a mere transitory and fleeting illusion, taking this form today and that tomorrow,”
― Six Characters in Search of an Author
― Six Characters in Search of an Author
“We almost always seem to be waiting to be happy. We are either waiting for the next fun moment to distract ourselves from our discontent, or we are waiting to achieve the “perfect” circumstances. We might be waiting for work to be over, waiting for the weekend, waiting for our next vacation, waiting to find our soul mate, waiting for our children to get through their”
― A Guide to the Present Moment
― A Guide to the Present Moment
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