My philosophy of life
While reading Tina Seelig's new book, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, I came across a Lao-Tzu quote that describes my new philosophy of life:
“The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.”
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Wow.
Speechless.
Great one.
Stay well,
Renee
Just today I blogged about much the same on my Bold Mind Web blog, just adding more social media pepper into it. There are some spiritually rich sentences inside. See at http://migre.me/69b
Cheers!
Delighted to share!
goal to aspire to.
But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.
Gihan
Thanks
I'm so thankful. I've seen a lot of Lao-Tzu quotes yet never this powerful GEM! Off to print it & post it by my computer.
Thanks for sharing, Guy. Best on your continued pursuit of excellence - you help so many!
If you have been successful enough (usually involving hard work plus a large dose of luck) to find a profession or job that you find fun and even playful then of course this is a fine philosophy of life.
I remain a bit skeptical of how rather less successful people apply this idea in a rat race society when they are struggling to make ends meet in a low paid dead end slave labor job and no longer have the luxury of persuing their visions of excellence if they even have a notion of what that might mean. Relatively few are able to find a path where they can enjoy the feeling that their work mimics play. I`ve personally had that feeling and lost it several times. A sage can be manage to be happy being poor and doing relatively meaningless and repetitive work just to stay alive but this is not what western culture teaches. Many people work stressful positions just to have a degree of status and purchasing power but few would describe their work as play. Most folks I see are not able to pull off that illusion. I don`t think the system makes it particularly easy. Just sayin.
Still a nice paradigm to aim for me thinks.
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