Colorado Sage

When one deals with people after having corrected oneself, then people too will become correct. When one manages affairs after having corrected oneself, affairs too become correct. When one responds to things after having corrected oneself, things too become correct.

Great people hide their light and conceal their brilliance; this is how they gain complete fulfillment. Stabilizing the spirit, taking good care of energy, they study the Tao unminding. When the spirit emerges with the Tao, this is called attainment of the Tao.

Joy and anger are deviations from the Way, anxiety and lament are loss of virtue, liking and disliking are excesses of the mind, habitual desires are burdens of life. If people can get rid of all these, then they merge with the spiritual light.

Methods are the inventions of people. The intelligent will come up with a way that works best for them. The stubborn will stick to existing methods evn though they are inappropriate.

We are born to this world with a purpose. And the purpose is not to fight for wealth and fame. Fame and fortune are like dust. People think that material goods are everything but I see them as ripples on the water or clouds in the sky. We may possess them for a while, but we must discard them when we die..

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Sages respond to being by nonbeing, unfailingly finding out the inner pattern; they receive fullness by emptiness, unfailingly finding out the measure. They live out their lives with calm joy and empty tranquility. Therefore they are not too distant from anything and not too close to anything.

Reading "Seven Taoist Masters"