Letting go without asking a single question is like the final act of spoiling you.
Even the sweetest candy has its bitter days.
One must know one's place, just as one knows one's own face; this is the most conscious form of self-awareness. Washing away the makeup is always more beautiful than haphazardly applying it. Therefore, do what you can and do it best; that is the essence of being human.
When a lonely cup is filled with boiling water, the searing heat represents the feeling of love. When the water warms, the cup feels comfortable, which is the feeling of life. When the water cools, the cup feels fear, which might be the feeling of loss. When the water becomes completely cold, the cup feels distressed and pours it out. Although the cup regains comfort, it falls and shatters into pieces. Discovering water marks on every shard, it realizes it still loves the water and wishes to love it again, but it is no longer possible.
Leisure is a humanistic taste—dancing with a sword in intoxication or reading in the rain by the window—all are delightful pleasures. Yet, leisure is also an ecological taste; humanistic taste leads to ecological taste, and a state of leisure allows one to enter a higher realm.
If you don't know where to go next, focus on the task at hand. Everything you endure now is the creation of your past thoughts; everything you will possess in the future is the product of your current actions. No matter when or where, learn to walk independently; it will make your journey more composed. Instead of escaping passively, face life bravely, and it will eventually end well.
You are a most important passerby. You are a passerby because you never stayed for me. You once sowed seeds of joy in my life, but they never bloomed because you never watered or fertilized them. You once left a scar on my life, but it remains because you never offered gentle compassion. You once brought a glimmer of light only to plunge me into total darkness, because you never thought to light my way.
To maintain what must be maintained is to accept the inevitable, while failing to maintain what should not be is incompetence; to not maintain what should be maintained is ignorance, and to fail to let go of what should be let go is stubbornness.
Just work hard, and then go home with your earnings.
When humans think, God laughs; when humans think, history laughs; when humans think, books laugh; when humans think, masters laugh; and when humans think, they themselves laugh.
Practice makes perfect, perfection leads to expertise, expertise leads to mastery, mastery leads to excellence, and excellence leads to greatness.
Habit forms nature, nature forms rules, rules form laws, and laws form life.
