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“It is also true that the single best decision you can make in life, professionally and personally, is to find a partner who complements and supports you and makes you better and for whom you do the same.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“The truly philosophical view is that not only is originality necessary, but everyone is necessary. Even the people you don’t like. Even the ones who really piss you off. Even the people wasting their lives, cheating, or breaking the rules are part of the larger equation. We can appreciate—or at least sympathize with—them, rather than try to fight or change them.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“Conversely, choosing partners and friends who do the opposite endangers both career and happiness.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“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
“To have an impulse and to resist it, to sit with it and examine it, to let it pass by like a bad smell—this is how we develop spiritual strength. This is how we become who we want to be in this world.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
Caren’s 2025 Year in Books
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