A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.
Interpretation
Challenges can lead to personal growth and wisdom.
This quote emphasizes the idea that difficult experiences and challenges, often seen as calamities, are essential for personal development. A true master understands that these hardships can be transformative, providing valuable lessons and opportunities for self-improvement and wisdom.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about overcoming life's challenges.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
If I had more time, I would have written less.
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold.
Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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