Returning to the source is serenity.
Interpretation
Finding peace comes from reconnecting with your true self or origins.
This quote emphasizes the importance of returning to one's roots or foundational beliefs to achieve a state of calmness and clarity. In the context of life, it suggests that by understanding where we come from and embracing our true essence, we can find serenity amidst the chaos of existence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about mindfulness and self-reflection.
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.
I don't like the term 'colour-blind' - because I don't want people to be blind to my colour.
Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed as a 'divine power' or 'moving spirit' within the cosmos itself ... All the wonderful phenomena of nature around us, organic as well as inorganic, are only various products of one and the same original force.
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