Common Sense In An Uncommon Degree Is What The World Calls Quotes

A good teacher opens the door for you,
but you must enter the room by yourself.

There is an original nature in things.
Things in their original nature are curved without the help of arcs,
straight without lines, round without compasses, and
rectangular without squares;
they are joined together without glue and
hold together without cords.
In this manner all things live and grow from an inner urge and
none can tell how they come to do so.

Water which is too pure,
has no fish..
- Zen Proverb

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day.
A rabbit asked him, “Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?”
Crow answered, “Sure, why not.”
So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested.
Later that day, a fox jumped on the rabbit and ate it.
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To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very high up.

It is not your intelligence but
it is the direction of your intelligence
that defines your life ..