He who treasures his body as much as the world can care for the world.
Interpretation
Value your body and well-being as much as the world values itself.
Laozi's quote emphasizes the importance of self-care and respect for one's body, suggesting that just as the world is nurtured and cared for, individuals should treat their own bodies with the same reverence. This perspective encourages a balance between external responsibilities and internal well-being, advocating for a harmonious relationship with oneself and the environment.
In practice
In a wellness seminar, to highlight the importance of self-love.
If you understand others you are smart._x000D_ If you understand yourself you are illuminated._x000D_ If you overcome others you are powerful._x000D_ If you overcome yourself you have strength._x000D_ If you know how to be satisfied you are rich._x000D_ If you can act with vigor, you have a will._x000D_ If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting._x000D_ If you die without loss, you are eternal.
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation.
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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.
p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.
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