With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do it, this too is a kind of confusion. So it is best to leave things alone and not force them. If I don't force things, at least I won't cause anyone any worry. Zhuangzi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
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Jalaluddin Rumi
But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
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Graeme Simsion
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
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George Saunders
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and...
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Raymond Carver
And, whoa! " He turned to Mr.D. "Your the wine dude? No way! " Mr. D turned hi eyes away from me and gave Nico a look of loathing. "The wine dude?"" Dionysus, right? Oh, wow! I've got your figurine! "" My figurine."" In my...
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Rick Riordan
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Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself...
The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the world belonged to him alone.
Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be...
Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is...
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
