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True
 Wisdom
If you're honest,
you know there have been times when you have stepped right up and made
certain choices with conviction and clarity. At other times you "chickened
out" and hoped somebody else would just make the decision for you, simply
because you didn't have the guts or energy to face the pressure. What you
may not have realized is that even in "not choosing," you were in fact
making a choice.
-- Phil McGraw --
When someone sees
the same people every day (as it usually happens in any relationships), they
wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person
to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become
angry. Every one seems to have a clear idea of how other people should
lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
-- Paulo Coelho (excerpt from The
Alchemist) --
That's the Way
When they hear of the
Way,
The highest minds practice it;
The average minds think about it And try it now and then;
The lowest minds laugh at it.
If they did not laugh at it,
It would not be the Way.
-- Lao-tse
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"The Story of empty tea cup"
A learned man once went to
visit a Zen teacher to inquire about Zen.
As the Zen teacher talked, the learned man frequently interrupted to express
his own opinion about this or that.
Finally, the Zen teacher stopped talking and began to serve tea to the
learned man.
He poured the cup full, then kept pouring until the cup overflowed.
"Stop," said the learned man.
"The cup is full, no more can be poured in."
"Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions," replied the Zen teacher.
"If you do not first empty your cup, how can you taste my cup of tea?"
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