Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
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Sacred Text
Tao Te Ching
page 1, line 1
Version or Translation - translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Published by Vintage Books (Random House)
Published in New York, N. Y., United States
Published in 1997 (this edition)
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Contribution #1269
Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,
like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
Published in Temple City, CA
Published in 2003
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Contribution #1460
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
There are some things that should not be forgotten, but that should not always be remembered.
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In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
y = mx + b
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To apply the golden rule adequately, we need knowledge and imagination. We need to know what effect our actions have on the lives of others. And we need to be able to imagine ourselves, vividly and accurately, in the other person's place on the receiving end of the action. With knowledge, imagination, and the golden rule, we can progress far in our moral thinking.
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose) but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence—a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Published by Norton
Published in 1995
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Contribution #749
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
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The Great Judge
by Hamburger, P.
Published in 1946
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Contribution #1134
The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.
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Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.
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On Modern Marriage
Published by St. Martin's Press
Published in 1986
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Contribution #741
For everything there is a season.….a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; ... a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile
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