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emulate the sparrow, the “wisest of birds.” According to the Zhuangzi, “If its eyes do not spot a suitable place, it will not look twice. If it happens to drop the nut it is carrying, it will simply abandon it and continue on its way. It is wary of people, and yet it lives among them, protected within the altars of grain and soil.”

I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me—and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me. I could join in their laughter—not exactly at mysel

This law explains why “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” and why “He calleth things that are not seen as though they were and things that were not seen become seen.”

“You don’t get extreme results without extreme actions.” - Derek Sivers

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

If you realize that you have enough,

you are truly rich.

at the end I hardly knew who I was or what I was doing.