Cultivation of self is in his own hands.

Excerpt

Movement and rest, life and death, rise and fall, are not at the beck and call of man. Cultivation of self is in his own hands.

Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 12, §8 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Chuang Tzu, true sages force nothing: they act and rest, live and die, letting themselves be carried by the course of the universe, and becoming such a sage is within everyone’s reach. Today, faced with what you cannot control, do what depends on you, then let the rest follow its course, with trust.

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