It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.
“You must employ your energies for honorable goals. Do not waste your time on things that are base, trivial, or beneath you. The moment for creative action will not last forever, so do not squander it.”
― The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life
― The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life
“It is not so important who you are, but what you do. Doing the work required and doing it in a smart way leads, somehow unsurprisingly, to success.”
― How to Take Smart Notes
― How to Take Smart Notes
“San Juan points out the problem of disciplining the small child. He tells us, for example, that it is not reasonable or practical or good that the small child should simply do as it pleases. That it should have opportunity for self-expression is good, but that it should grow without discipline, means that ultimately it will place a heavy burden upon society. It is not good that the child should regard every restriction upon its action as a frustration. It must learn to recognize that many so-called frustrations actually are, or must become, voluntary sacrifices for the common good.”
― The Dark Night of the Soul: Man's Instinctive Search for Reality
― The Dark Night of the Soul: Man's Instinctive Search for Reality
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