“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
Lao Tzu
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The Greater Good: Universal Philosophical Values Both Past and Present
“Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging.”
-Marcus Aurelius
Virtue vs. Vice: Then and Now
“Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free.”
-Epictetus
Kindness Despite Disagreement
“Begin the morning by saying to yourself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. … I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him.” -Marcus Aurelius
Simplicity: Then and Now
“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity.
Put others first.
Desire little.”
-Lao Tzu
“This Too Shall Pass!” Living With Impermanence Through Hard Times.
“Thus strong wind does not last all morning.
Sudden rain does not last all day.
Even Heaven and Earth cannot make it last” -Tao Te Ching Chapter 23
