snow crows

 

If you try

to grab hold of the

world and do what you want

with it, you won’t

succeed.

 

The world

is a vessel for spirit,

and it wasn’t made to be manipulated.

Tamper with it and you’ll spoil it.

Hold it, and you’ll

lose it.

 

With tao,

sometimes you move ahead

and sometimes you stay back; sometimes

you work hard and sometimes you rest; sometimes

you’re strong and sometimes you’re weak;

sometimes you’re up; sometimes

you’re down.

 

The sage

remains alert, avoiding

extremes, avoiding extravagance,

avoiding excess.

 

from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 29

 

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Solitude is an art.

Mental training is needed to refine

and stabilize it. When you practice solitude,

you dedicate yourself to the

care of the soul.

 

Stephen Batchelor

 

Those people

who actually realize it just

keep serene and free at all times,

without cravings, without

dependence.

 

Yantou

 

 

To the

ordinary being,

others often require tolerance.

To the highly evolved being, there is no

such thing as tolerance, because there is no

such thing as other. She has given up all

ideas of individuality and extended

her goodwill without prejudice

in every direction. 

 

from Hua hu Ching, Chapter 15

 

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My heart has

become capable of every form:

It is a pasture for gazelles and a cloister

for Christian monks, a temple for idols and

the pilgrim’s Ka’ba, and the tables of

the torah and the book of

the Qur’an.

 

I follow

the religion of love:

whatever way love’s camels take,

that is my religion and

my faith.

 

Ibn ‘Arabi