The Bodega at the End of the Internet

We are defined by what we choose to reject.

If you want to become whole,

let yourself be partial.

If you want to become straight,

let yourself be crooked.

If you want to become full,

let yourself be empty.

If you want to be reborn,

let yourself die.

If you want to be given everything,

give everything up.

The Master, by residing in the Tao,

sets an example for all beings.

Because he doesn’t display

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The more we choose to accept responsibility in our lives, the more power we will exercise over our lives. Accepting responsibility for our problems is thus the first step to solving them.

we mistakenly spend time figuring out how to win the game we're in instead of choosing which game to play in the first place.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

The pleasures connected with his work were pleasures of ambition; his social pleasures were those of vanity; but Ivan Ilych’s greatest pleasure was playing bridge.

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.