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And in eternity no mockery will wound the lover because he was foolish enough to make himself a laughing-stock through hoping everything.
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this center, observe degree, priority, and place.
I who cannot be fit into universes upon universes, fit into the heart of the sincere believer.
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao’s Gift!), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!
People go crazy because it is a convenient defense against going sane.
I never think upon eternity without receiving great comfort. For I say to myself, “How could my soul grasp the idea of everylastingness, if the two were not related in some way?”
Inspired merit so by breath is barr’d:
It is not so with Him that all things knows
As ’tis with us that square our guess by shows;
But most it is presumption in us when
The help of heaven we count the act of men.
The bell never rings of itself; unless someone handles or moves it, it is silent.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
What I will is fate.
While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
with them forgive yourself.
He bids fair to grow wise, who has discovered that he is not so.
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our end and spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one saw to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
A man should wander about treating all creatures as he himself would be treated.
In a village or in a forest, on land or sea, wherever venerable persons dwell, that place is delightful.
What guarantee is there that the five senses, taken together, do cover the whole of possible existence? They cover simply our actual experience, our human knowledge of facts or events. There are gaps between the fingers; there are gaps between the senses. In these gaps is the darkness which hides the connection between things… this darkness is the source of our vague fear and anxiety, but also the home of the gods. They alone see the connections, the total relevance of everything that happens; that which now comes to us in bits and pieces, the accidents which exist only in our heads, in our limited perceptions.
Man is a mystery. If you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
The mind should be kept independent of any thoughts that arise within it. If the mind depends on anything, it has no sure haven.
