Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
DO! Don__ be concerned about what you are doing _ do it so wholeheartedly that the very doing becomes a bliss. And don__ think of great things, there is no such thing as great or small. Don__ think that you are to do great things, play great music, paint great paintings, that you are to become a Picasso or a Van Gogh, or something else _ a great writer, a Shakespeare, or a Milton. There is nothing _ no great things, no small things. There are great men and small men but things are not great and small. And a great man is one who brings his greatness to every small thing that he is doing: he eats in a great way, he walks in a great way, he sleeps in a great way. He brings the quality of greatness to everything.And what is greatness? Nature.... Nothing is greater than nature.
When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
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DO! Don__ be concerned about what you are doing _ do it so wholeheartedly that the very doing becomes a bliss. And don__ think of great things, there is no such thing as great or small. Don__ think that you are to do great things, play great music, paint great paintings, that you are to become a Picasso or a Van Gogh, or something else _ a great writer, a Shakespeare, or a Milton. There is nothing _ no great things, no small things. There are great men and small men but things are not great and small. And a great man is one who brings his greatness to every small thing that he is doing: he eats in a great way, he walks in a great way, he sleeps in a great way. He brings the quality of greatness to everything.And what is greatness? Nature.... Nothing is greater than nature.
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