Life as Simple as it can get

"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you
don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not
doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or
less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have
problems with our friends or family, we blame the other
person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will
grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive
effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason
and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no
reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you
understand, and you show that you understand, you can
love, and the situation will change" 

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."

— Thich Nhat Hanh

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."

— Thich Nhat Hanh

I - Ching (易 經)

I am currently reading I -Ching, also known as "Book of Changes" is a fascinating book about how do you resolve problems, queries and answers to questions by a traditional Chinese methodology.


Would be a recommended read by me. 

Try the I-Ching Method of answering Questions here or  here

Chinese Quotes

Confucius

• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life
• A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
• He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
  
• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
  
• If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
• Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
• Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
  
  Read more:Confucius (551 BC- 479 BC) Read more words of wisdom here

Mencius Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. Read more:Mencius (371 BC - 289 BC) Read more quotes from Mencius

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.