"Life should be lived to the point of tears."

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

Encourage heart to come to the fore and take a lead – stand up to bully-ego.

When heart sits properly, unburdened by pressure from above, it will naturally yield to pressure from below and start to bloom.

We all have something to expiate, otherwise we wouldn't be around.

A faltering heart simply lacks courage. There's no getting around it.

"for equalities are so weigh’d, that curiosity in neither can make choice of either’s moi’ty"

Time well spent.

Nothing exists in itself or for itself, solely. Every thing in relation. This is the basis of process philosophy, Eastern or otherwise. So, the significance of a thing is not its thingness but its resonance, its betweenness, its usefulness.

The Daoist embodies contradiction – marries Heaven and Hell. Occupies a middle ground never actually touched because being is an oscillation from one extreme to another, a bipolar hum. Such becomes pathological – unbalanced – only when poles lose sight of one another, when I lose the bigger picture. Wisdom is the ability to embrace, embody then disembody. To disentangle spirit from mood so that this present moment can extend into all.

What makes it meaningful other than my insistence that it be so? It's all in the positivity – an absolute faith in the underpinnings of life.

When the knee hurts then soften the hip. You do that by teaching it to smile.

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Look on the bright side.

"The end result was a fighter who fought alone, and who drew from his own silent convictions all the impulse he needed to forge ahead; without complaints; without the necessity to be praised."

Nothing heals like laughter.