When you see a straight piece of wood, you do not want to make it into a wheel.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 192
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Published in 2003
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The creature born is the creature dying.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
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Page 175
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Contribution #1603
Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.
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As important as "hanging on" is knowing when to let go.
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Show me a person who has never made a mistake
and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
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One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
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I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life—the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
To enjoy anything, we cannot be attached to it. What we usually try to
do is capture any joy that comes our way before it can escape. We try
to cling to pleasure, but all we succeed in doing is making ourselves
frustrated because, whatever it promises, pleasure simply cannot last.
But if I am willing to kiss the joy as it flies, I say, 'Yes, this
moment is beautiful. I won't grab it. I'll let it go.'
When
you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other
people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more
effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing
factor.
The
more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you
will have.
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
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Living well is the best revenge.
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When there is detachment, there is the ability to see things for what they are. One is not colored with one's own feelings and attitudes, but there is the ability to be free from them.
Never argue, repeat your assertion.
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
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Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I'm not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
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Living apart and at peace with myself; I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life. So simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit.
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Acceptance is not a submission; it is acknowlegment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
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It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
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Of course life is bizarre. The more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
With the stones we cast at them, genius build new roads for us.
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Harvard Law:
Under the most rigidly controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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The essence of man is imperfection.
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Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Come, Whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving, Come. Ours is not a caravan of despair. It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow a thousand times, Still come. And yet again, come!
One of the biggest obstacles to people improving their self-esteem is their constant need for approval by others. The problem with this is that until you believe in yourself, it will never matter what someone else says because the most important person doesn't believe it, You.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is - and rise above it.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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Accepting does not necessarily mean 'liking,' 'enjoying,' or 'condoning.' I can accept what is--and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
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You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the quiet acceptance of what is."
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Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance.
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When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
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