T Quotes
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“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.”
“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.”
“The sage does not return unchanged.
They integrate.
You are not the same.
Not because the medicine worked.
But because you did.
You sat with your shadow.
You stayed through the storm.
You chose the harder honesty.
This wasn’t an escape.
It was a re-entry.”
Source: The Tao of Psychedelics
“The sage does not separate the sacred
from the ordinary.
They rinse the bowl
as if it mattered.
They fold the towel
as if it were prayer.
The ceremony isn’t over
because the altar is gone.
It continues
in how you touch the day.
Wash the dishes slowly.
Feel the heat in the water.
Notice the sound of soap against porcelain.
This is presence.
This is integration.”
Source: The Tao of Psychedelics
“The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.”
“The sage does not walk toward a goal.
They walk through a question.
A destination invites expectation.
But a door invites presence.
The medicine does not care
what outcome you hoped for.
It responds to how honestly
you name your entry point.”
Source: The Tao of Psychedelics
“The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.”
“The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.”
“The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.”
“The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.”
“The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.”
“The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.”
“The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.”
“The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.”
“The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.”
“The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.”
“The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.”
“The sage is one with the world, and lives in harmony with it.”
“The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.”
“The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)”
Source: Real Happiness Challenge
“The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.”
“The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.”
“the sage Lenny Millstein, who not only was an excellent basketball man but an excellent person as well, who knew how to handle fourteen-year-old boys because he understood that fourteen was the worst possible age on the calendar of human life, and therefore all fourteen-year-olds were confused and fractured beings, not one of them a child anymore and not one of them an adult, none quite right in the head or at home in his unfinished body, and in the furnace of that claustrophobic arena of”
Source: 4 3 2 1
“The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.”
“The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.”
“The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity.”
“The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.”
“The Sage's Gift A Seed Maps The Topaz Keyring A Sandy Zenith The Hexagonal Oculus Prism”
“The Sage's Gift A Seed Maps The Topaz Keyring A Sandy Zenith The Hexagonal Prismatic Oculus”
“The Sage's Gift A Seed The Topaz Keyrings Unique The Sandy Zeniths Hexagonal Prismatics The Oculus Crystal Swirling”
“The Sage's Gifts Maps Out A Keyring”
“The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine.”
“The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.”
“The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.”
Source: 道德经
“The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.”
Source: A Choice of Pearls: Embracing a Collection of the Most Genuine Ethical Sentences, Maxims and Salutary Reflections
“The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.”
Source: Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation
“The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade.”
“The Sage worldview has been suppressed and repressed, creating a crisis of meaning in the world. Only Sages can resolve this crisis since they alone can think big enough to replace God. When God has been killed, it is essential to bring him back, but now in a proper, rational and logical form, one that retains the best aspects of science, but without science’s grotesque materialism and nihilism. Only Sages can raise God from his grave. Only Sages can bring back meaning, purpose and a point to existence”
Source: The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning
“The sage's Way is to act and not to contend.”
“The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.”
Source: The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
“The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.”
“The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.”
“The sages of every generation wish that they could find a master key that can rekindle inspiration in their minds after its fire has been extinguished for a while.”
“The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.”
Source: Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science
“The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?”
“The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.”
“The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.”
Source: Force of circumstance
“The said Ivan Dovgochkun, son of Nikifor, when I went to him with a friendly proposition, called me publicly by an epithet insulting and injurious to my honor, namely, a goose, whereas it is known to the whole district of Mirgorod, that I never was named after that disgusting animal, and have no intention of ever being named after it. And the proof of my noble extraction is, that, in the baptismal register to be found in the Church of the Three Bishops, the day of my birth, and likewise the fact of my baptism, are inscribed. But a goose, as is well known to every one who has any knowledge of science, cannot be inscribed in the baptismal register; for a goose is not a man, but a fowl: which, likewise, is sufficiently well known, even to persons who have not been to a seminary. But the evil-minded nobleman, being privy to all these facts, for no other purpose than to offer a deadly insult to my rank and calling, affronted me with the aforesaid foul word.”
Source: The Overcoat and Other Works by Nicolai Gogol
“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”