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🤲 Acceptance
“People neglect the root and seek the branches”
Accepting the root of things rather than chasing branches brings clarity.
“Minds create the abyss and hearts cross it”
— Huang Po
“Since you are not sick do not go looking for a doctor”
“A perception sudden as blinking that subject and object are one will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding”
“Beginners practice not thinking about whether a thing is good or bad they practice just doing it”
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
— Menander
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
— Lao Tzu
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
— Zhuangzi
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
— Epictetus
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”
— Thomas Merton
