The seemingly pitch black darkness of a room can be eliminated by a single candlelight, and instantly that darkness flees, but the opposite cannot be done…
You can’t go to a well lit room full of light and truth and take any amount of darkness and have any effect whatsoever… No amount of darkness can extinguish the light of one small candle… That’s why Darkness has no truth in it… There’s color in Darkness…
When there is no desire,
all things are at peace…
Calmness in victory. Tranquility in defeat. Serenity when confronted by the inevitability of suffering. The sage does not rely on externals to provide him with spiritual strength, for he knows: dependence on external factors – such as status, wealth, popularity, hedonism, success, knowledge and relationships – is the reason why modern man crumples so easily in the face of defeat, failure or loss.
The sage is indifferent to success or failure. He understands that life driven by self-centered ambition will never make sense, no matter how successful you are or with how many positive externals you care to adorn it.
Life itself acquires meaning only when you satisfy your spiritual needs by living in total harmony with the Tao.
we are differnet
but we are the same,
we are two…
but we are one,
we are far
but we have the same Roots…
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I love this Tree… and I feel indebted to it… It has taught many things to me…
It is really fascinating to see that above the ground what seems to the observer as two different tree bodies are one and the same Tree sharing the same roots beneath the ground… Even though they may look like two separate trees they have and depend on the same root system…
After the end
and before the beginning,
we searched across the silent wastes…
From horizon to horizon,
we saw only
emptiness,
and we knew:
we had always been,
we had never existed…
