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Symmetry is beautiful, because life blooms in cycles rather than episodes.
Elegance is beautiful, because everything that matters can be described in a few math equations or observed between a few kindergartners.
Contrast is beautiful, because something that lacks an alternative also lacks meaning.
Connection is beautiful, because the s... See more
“What are beauty and goodness? They are initiated from xin (i.e., emotional mind).
Yang Jwing-Ming • The Dao De Jing: A Qigong Interpretation
In the end, we must come to see that truth itself is the highest good, that truth itself is the greatest expression and manifestation of love. Ultimately, love and truth are identical; they are like two sides of a coin. You can’t have truth without love, and you can’t have love without truth.
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
According to the Tao Te Ching, any force, object, or idea is incomplete and meaningless without reference to its own essential opposite. Difficult and easy complete one another. Long and short compare one another. High and low determine one another.
Daniel P. Reid • The Tao Of Health, Sex, and Longevity: A Modern Practical Guide to the Ancient Way
Cultivating a Vibe
Long ago we had passed the stage of asking what was the meaning of life, a naïve query which understands life as the attaining of some aim through the active creation of something of value. For us, the meaning of life embraced the wider cycles of life and death, of suffering and of dying.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
The outcome is not the outcome. The darkness is not an end point, nor is the daylight. They live in a continually unfolding, mutually dependent cycle. Neither is bad or good. They simply exist.