Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Lao Tzu

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Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.

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Humility to learn. Strength to endure. Vision to transform. Will to act. Virtue to act rightly. Wisdom to accept the inevitable.

The Stoic Emperor

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox.

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