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Wei Wu Wei Quotes



Quotes by Wei Wu Wei - (21 quotes)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Ego category:

The saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The sage is a man who rids himself of his ego. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Ego category:

We do not possess an ego.We are possessed by the idea of one. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Growth category:

It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Happiness category:

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself - and there isn't one. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Humility category:

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Life category:

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Meditation category:

The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Nature category:

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Perception category:

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Performance category:

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Problems category:

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Quality category:

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Reality category:

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Religion category:

Disciples and devotees... what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea! (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Spontaneity category:

Spontaneity is being present in the present. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Time category:

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Truth category:

In order to be effective, truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Windows category:

Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open? (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Wisdom category:

Wise men don't judge: They seek to understand. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Worth category:

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant. (Wei Wu Wei)

Wei Wu Wei - From the Writing category:

The writer of these lines has nothing whatsoever to teach anyone; his words are just his contribution to our common discussion of what must inevitably be for us the most important subject which could be discussed by sentient beings. (Wei Wu Wei)