#taoism

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."

"Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got."

"When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind."

"A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick."

"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."