Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Lao Tzu

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This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

Stephen Richards

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening.

This runaway thinking is just a recipe for anxiety, which is always causing me to try and live forward into the next, into the next, into the next. It's keeping me moving, moving, moving, and not happy, and not peaceful, and not present.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

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