The entire nature is open to the vast sky,

Only we humans close the door and dream our own dreams.

In all of existence, except for human beings, almost nothing is in a hurry.

Only we humans are always rushing towards the future.

We long for beautiful things and are afraid of losing them when we get them.

But if we turn ourselves into beautiful things, then we have nothing to gain and nothing to lose.

External growth is a kind of burial, while inner growth is a kind of blooming.

Wisdom is an upward force that makes a person light and want to rise;

Desire is a downward drag force that makes a person droop.

Different from phenomena in the material world, in the spiritual world,

A person must have the courage to jump downward before he can rise upward.

In fact, life is very similar to marriage. The world is the woman we marry.

The world is vast. But our lives can only pass through a dark and narrow tunnel.

Everything a person experiences should be said to be a fermentation of his inner qualities.

Once you have light within you, you can become completely alone, just like a star.

If you were really the sun, you would not be so depraved that you need a meteorite to prove your light.

We cannot just be satisfied with the sparks generated by collision with others. Everyone can light up himself.

True pride is an inner and natural quality.

It is not the result of comparing yourself with anything. It is the absence of both pride and inferiority at the same time.

Just like when a flower blooms, it is neither proud nor inferior, it just blooms.

Just as everyone has his own unique fingerprint,

In this world, everyone must also have his own unique path,

A A path that only you can walk and others cannot.

Your destiny is to finish this road, so there is no need to look left and right to see if there is anyone following you.

Only when there is no one behind you, left or right , you are truly on the right track.

A person should follow his own path, and his own path is the way to survive. Others' paths will only lead you to the cemetery.

The first half of our life is like a slow climb up the mountain, facing the sun and hope.

In the second half of life, we began to slide down the mountain. We have reached the back of the mountain.

The sun no longer shines on us, and the sky is getting darker.

We feel that time is passing, but in fact our own lives are passing by.

Time itself has never moved, it has been watching us pass.

This is like seeing the two sides of the bank receding when we were on a boat, but that was an illusion.

Our life is like a river, and the things we have experienced are like the scenery on both sides.

The river never stops flowing forward, heading straight to the sea. It cannot stay. There is no turning back.

So, nothing can stay for us,

Even if it is something that just happened, its authenticity will not be much better than a dream,

It’s just that it leaves us with a deeper memory than dreams psychologically.

When we appreciate the beautiful natural scenery,

or enter into the aesthetic activities of art, we are temporarily freed from our desires.

The state of breaking away from the will is the state of no worries, and happiness is nothing but the absence of worries.

Just as nature has its days and nights,

our inner spiritual consciousness has its own bright and dark periods.

When we are alone, sometimes we are overwhelmed by inexplicable sadness and emptiness,

Sometimes we feel happy and fulfilled for no reason,

It's like there is a wheel inside, it keeps turning in a cycle.

Every unfinished experience or every unfulfilled wish,

It is like a program implanted in a person's mind, and they will run on their own from time to time,

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Thus destroying a person's mental peace.

Once a person becomes realistic, spiritual rust will follow.

A true optimist is optimism that has emerged from pessimism.

Optimism that has not experienced deep pessimism is fragile and vulnerable.

Even in the most beautiful places, people are running all the way.

The things we pursue are often the very things that enslave us,

And the things we ignore in the past are the very things that can set us free.

The essence of secular life is triviality and fragmentation.

In such a life, a person cannot piece himself together into a whole.

Only in spiritual and spiritual life can a person experience an inner wholeness.

The human self is like a clown.

Except for itself, which is performing with gusto, everyone else is watching its joke.

Life is a kind of freedom and unrestrainedness,

However, once this unrestrainedness is dominated by self-awareness, it becomes rampant.

Everyone has a broken bridge inside.

This broken bridge fantasizes about connecting with other broken bridges.

The inner barrenness, over time, creates the appearance of external begging.

People live with one desire and one self. Desire is begging all the way, and self is selling along the street

People's appearance is just a display window, and their inside is the real warehouse.

A person who does not occupy himself will sooner or later be occupied by others.

It is precisely because they do not have the ability to occupy themselves that people invade each other.

Most people who are pure on the inside have no intention of wading into the muddy waters outside.

A person’s inner harmony is the true and natural harmony.

The harmony between people is mostly just a helpless compromise.

Some people can bring a sense of freshness to people, while others can make people feel depressed.

Most people are relatively humble on the surface, at least verbally.

However, they arranged their booths discreetly.

They all silently displayed their exhibits one by one.

Although people often appear friendly, enthusiastic, and courteous on the surface,

This makes us feel warm and cozy. But this is only a very thin layer of their character, which cannot withstand a few scratches.

People with inner emptiness will tend to wealth, fame and power.

These shells are a good protection for the inner emptiness.

But people who are rich and superior inside often appear ordinary and humble. This is a kind of protection for their inner superiority.

So Lao Tzu said: The saint is covered with sacks, but he has beautiful jade in his arms.

For some unknown reason,

our souls are closed in the cage of the body and serve as hard labor for life.

Perhaps the meaning of life is the soul’s exploration and understanding of sacred things.

When a person dies, the soul will be separated from the body.

A few noble souls have reached their destination because they know the way to eternity and holiness.

Most vulgar souls do not know that there is a way to the divine.

They don’t even know where they are going, and soon their energy is exhausted and they lose their energy again. Returning to this world,

thus falling into the vicious cycle of life and death again.

The purpose of religion and philosophy is to try to provide our souls with a road map to that immortal destination at death.

Our souls are like water in a pot,

Our desires are like firewood lit under the pot, and the human soul is tortured by the fire of desire. With.

The more the fire of desire burns, the more the water above it churns.

Only when the fire goes out does the water above cool down and calm down, but this usually only happens At the time of death.

Human life is like this process of boiling water, so instead of letting our water continue to boil and evaporate,

It is better to use part of the water above to control or even extinguish the flame below. ,

In this way, our souls can at least suffer less, and even be completely liberated.

A few wise men and sages did exactly this.

Only the soul can have a clear style.

Having a soul means that a person can respond to sacred things.

To avoid being polluted, it must either become a vast ocean or a mountain lake.

An awakened person, when he looks outside, his eyes are penetrating.

When people look into his eyes, they will see an invisible world. the bottom of the abyss.

For a person with a rich soul,

getting along or living with those who have an empty and confused soul is equivalent to being buried with him.

Those who are sharp are those who have no light inside.

A person with great inner light, even if he cannot cover up all the inner light, will try to lower his brightness as much as possible.

Just as volcanoes, floods and mudslides erode the landscape,

Similarly, strong and violent emotions such as anger, hatred, greed and jealousy

It will also gradually leave lasting marks on a person's face.

The desire for recognition from others reflects our own inner darkness.

Even the great light of the sun cannot penetrate the darkness within you.

No matter where you go, you carry the darkness within you with you.

All your pain and misery come from the darkness within you.

Because there is no inner light, we chase the outer light.

But the light outside still cannot illuminate our insides, and because we consume what little energy we have, our insides will become darker.

Every blind movement raises some dust - external dust and internal dust.

The psychological trauma left by the past,

is like a ghost living in a person's mind, they will come out to haunt you from time to time.

Those who lash out and expose others often expose themselves first.

Some so-called loyalty is the mentality that hermit crabs have before leaving their home.

There are many traps that look like a rare opportunity.

On the theatrical stage of this world, no one acts with their true appearance.

There is no so-called winner and loser, only the obsessed and the detached.

A detached loser is far better than an obsessive winner.

When the mouse was caught in the sky by the owl, the mouse also had a flight experience.

But it did not have a flight experience.

Even if a dung beetle happens to fall into a jewelry box, it will be treated as jewelry by casual people.

And it will be treated like a diamond. This is what the jewelry box itself has. magic.

When others look at us intently,

The reason why we feel awkward and uncomfortable is because we are afraid of being seen through our inner self.

But if your inner self is an abyss that others cannot penetrate at all,

then you can be like a mirror and let others see enough.

People may sympathize with others who have the same shortcomings as themselves,

But people will not forgive others for those strengths that they do not have.

If a person has the courage to admit and condemn the bad qualities in himself,

then he should also have the courage to praise the beautiful qualities in himself,

Especially for some special qualities that are not shared by the general public, praising those qualities is praising God.

For some people, their whole virtue is that they successfully hide all their flaws and behave impeccably in their manners and manners.

People are usually reluctant and hesitant when they praise others,

But they become impassioned when they condemn others,

All the filthy and vicious words spewed out of their big mouths without thinking, as if those things had been waiting at the starting line for a long time, just waiting for a gunshot.

A little bird in a cage will surely miss the freedom of the sky.

Two little birds were put into a cage together, and soon they forgot about the sky.

People pursue aura, even those at a very low level.

Because through singing, first of all, they confirm themselves, and secondly, they feel a kind of power from the expansion of themselves.

The response from the low-level cries was huge, almost a roar.

The high-level cries only make a small sound, or even silence.

Have we ever noticed how a big tree ages and dies?

When a big tree gets old, its roots become less and less able to be fixed in the soil.

Its roots were gradually eroded and exposed above the ground. Finally, a strong wind hit and the big tree fell down.

In fact, our innate spirituality ages and dies in this way.

Every child is pure and spiritual when he is born.

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But why do they become dull, lifeless and live like machines when they grow up?

Because they received education and were trained to have ambitions and goals.

Once life enters the future, it will drift away from the here and now, but the future is illusory.

Only the here and now is real and living. It is the only soil for life and spirituality.

When a person digs himself out of this soil, his spiritual life will soon wither and die.

Those things that once made us flock to each other,

have finally become things that we avoid.

Fashion is essentially the never-ending plastic surgery of vulgar things,

so that people can enjoy vulgarity with dignity and elegance. This is wonderful.

When a society is completely intoxicated with fashion,

Those truly noble and great things gradually fade out of people’s sight,

People will even doubt those things. whether it really existed.

If the sky is completely covered with dark clouds for a long time, people will slowly think that those clouds are the whole sky.

They do not believe that there is a blue and pure sky above the clouds. With.

Truly noble things are like stars,

They are fixed in the sky and emit an eternal light.

And fashionable things are like shooting stars. Shooting stars do not shine by themselves.

They can only emit a short and dazzling light through friction with the atmosphere, and then fall quickly. into darkness.

Despite this, people still seem to prefer meteors.

This may be because meteors are more similar to our lives.

The public of every era applauds and cheers for the many shooting stars of their own era.

At the same time, there are always a few people in every era,

They have been quietly watching the few hanging in the distant sky with reverence

A star that illuminates all eras.

The overwhelming praise coming from the same generation is often suspicious.

And a noble truth can be praised by a few knowledgeable people in every era.

This kind of stereophonic echo is more real.

Only those who have transcended humanity are worthy of showing humanity the way.

The person who can guide a group of people out of their own way is often not the leader,

but a hermit from afar.

It takes courage to look up, and confidence to look down.

Even in low places, people must learn to look down. Looking down brings its own lightness, which makes people feel elevated.

Only those who can fly can look down without getting dizzy.

The width is expanding its territory vigorously and vigorously,

but the height is still looking down at it unmoved.

Sometimes, turning a blind eye is not blindness, but a detached vision.

Reality cannot be desired, it can only be encountered unexpectedly when you have no expectations.

Many people appeared amidst the noise, while a few left in silence.

External success requires a person to make progress, while inner growth begins with retreat.

No one can gain true knowledge by imitating, and no one can reach heaven by following others.

True virtue must not only contain the quality of innocence and goodness,

It will even show poetic and artistic beauty.

True virtue is not a fixed dogma or commandment,

but a natural reaction arising from the understanding of the current situation.

So true virtue is like an endless river, it is essentially lively and flowing.

Man can become great only through spiritual and spiritual growth,

not by trying to hide his animal nature.

Take a step back and you will see the vast sea and sky; take a step forward and you will see cliffs.

Angels and devils are not found only in heaven and hell.

Angels and devils are mixed among us humans.

The most wonderful creations in the world are made by human hands.

The greatest evil deeds in the world are also made by human hands.

Sensibility is animal, rationality is human, and spirituality is sacred.

Rationality is a product of our humanity. It is an effort to transcend sensibility.

Sensibility is actually our inner unconscious desire, that is, animal instinct.

This kind of sensibility is a blind impulse, so it is basically destructive.

However, there is still a kind of divine sensibility, which is the source of creativity and inspiration.

Such sensibility is even far superior to human reason.

Laughter is a quality that a life possesses only when it has evolved to a stage of reflective consciousness.

Animals cannot laugh. Laughing because of something is human laughter.

Laughing for no reason in solitude may be God’s laughter.

The most profound truth is best expressed in concise and simple language,

Because language is only used to express truth rather than express itself.

The highest state of language is to highlight what it wants to express but hide itself.

Complicated and gorgeous things usually have a short lifespan,

Because the complexity and beauty do not come from within itself,

They come from Pieced together from the outside, it is a product of artificiality,

And any artificiality will eventually become its own burden.

On the contrary, simple and plain things have relatively long-lasting vitality.

The ultimate in simplicity is emptiness and inaction, which is the realm of true immortality.

Calmness is the unique rhythm of nobility, while hustle and bustle is the external manifestation of triviality.

When you are calm to the extreme, you enter eternity.

A person with a rich soul can feel happy without the help of others.

He is like an object with its own nuclear power source, able to run freely without external force.

In contrast, people with poor souls are like dead objects without any source of power.

It is difficult for them to move without contact and collision with each other.

Only here and now is the light.

If you recall the past, you are searching in the dark.

If you fantasize about the future, you are waiting in the dark.

If we can live completely in the here and now,

We will naturally feel relaxed and happy. Living in the here and now is equivalent to living in heaven.

Once we have a future and a goal, we will have constant tension and anxiety,

So living in the future is equivalent to living in hell.

Trees have no mind and cannot move, but they always live here and now.

That's why the trees look so peaceful and content,

They are so green, and that green is a living symbol.

In contrast, humans are always busy and moving, but they look lifeless,

and wander like ghosts because they are not living in the world. The past is living in the future.

The past is a dark cloud, the future is a rainbow, and the rainbow will turn into a dark cloud sooner or later.

Only at this moment is the blue, pure sky.

I clearly see that the plants are still alive in the Garden of Eden.

The most beautiful place in the world, the most beautiful time and space in all existence—here and now.

Where is the Garden of Eden? It is now, it is here and now.