taken away by random thoughts

stop it

 

The reason you

do not understand is just

because you are taken away by random

thoughts twenty-four hours a day. Since you

want to learn business, you fall in love with things

you see and fondly pursue things you read;

over time, you get continuously involved.

How can you manage to work on

enlightenment then?

 

Foyan

 

not afraid to forget who you are

morten brekkevold

 

When you are not

afraid to forget who you are,

life in the kitchen, or life in the office,

might contain huge and overwhelming happiness.

Everything you look at, the door, the walls meeting in the

corner of the room, the light shining on the cell phone, might be

so alive that it looks back. Other people might not be who you

thought they were. Family members might be as fresh

and surprising as strangers. And you, whom you

have only apparently known all your life,

might be fresh and surprising

to yourself too.

 

John Tarrant

bring me the rhinoceros

🦏

 

whenever something happens

the way of heaven

 

Can what happened to you

stop you from being fair, high-minded,

moderate, conscientious, unhasty, honest, moral,

self-reliant, and so on — from possessing all the qualities that,

when present, enable a man’s nature to be fulfilled? So then,

whenever something happens that might cause you

distress, remember to rely on this principle:

this is not bad luck, but bearing it

valiantly is good luck.

 

Marcus Aurelius

the annotated marcus

 

attained upon looking within

make an offering of stillness

 

The two things

in the world that are hardest

to do are crossing the ocean and going

into battle; yet people will do these things without

fearing their difficulties. When it comes to the Way, it has

the ease of being so easy that it is attained upon looking

within, not like the danger of crossing the ocean;

it has the security of the naturalness of

celestial design, not like the peril of

going into battle: yet people

rarely practice it —

why is that? 

 

The Cultivator of Realization

taoist meditation