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“An individual’s attempt to control life according to her own beliefs, and as a result to force this perspective upon others, is the beginning of tyranny.”
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
“This is because his primary focus was not on the liberation of the individual but on an enlightened society. I am not saying here that an enlightened society is impossible. But it needs to be clear that the foundation of a society comes from what is within the minds of the individuals who live in it. Hence Lao-tzu’s insight is that the enlightenment of the individual takes us a step closer to the total liberation of humankind.”
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
“As a result, we have developed numerous methods of practice to explore this movement of energy through our bodies, such as the Chinese arts of qigong and t’ai chi, the Indian practice of hatha yoga, and the modern movement culture spreading across the globe. The problem with practical movement methods such as these is they can delay our quest for a liberated mind (enlightenment) if the practice becomes a habitual crutch.”
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
“When we attempt to control life, we are assuming that we do not belong to the universe, so we begin to drown in the current of change.”
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
“If I believe in the intrinsic efficacity of a discipline, I attribute its failure to all kinds of things but not to the discipline itself; so that it does not devalorise itself. If, on the contrary, I have understood the intrinsic inefficacity of the discipline, while not by any means forbidding myself to practice it if I feel the need to do so, a profound lassitude will develop little by little in me which will detach me from this discipline in a real transcendence.”
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
― Effortless Living: Wu-Wei and the Spontaneous State of Natural Harmony
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