Holistic Submission
Philosophical Musings from the Ancient to the
Modern
“There is nothing softer
or more yielding than water but none is superior to it in overcoming the hard; it
has no equal. Weakness overcomes strength and gentleness overcomes rigidity.
Everyone knows this, yet no one puts it into practice”
St.
Peter on Fragili-tea
“Your beauty should not come from
outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewellery and
fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading
beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight”
Friedrich Nietzsche on Servili-tea
“There are some who threw away their
last value when they threw away their servitude”
Kahil Gibran on
Spirituali-tea
“You give little when you give of
your possessions. It is when you give of
yourself that you truly give”
Lord Byron on Du-tea
“I do detest everything which is not
perfectly mutual”
T. S. Eliot on
Sereni-tea
“We shall not cease from
exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time”
C. G. Jung on Receptivi-tea
"We cannot
change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."
John Phillips on Sensitivi-tea
"In abolishing the Ego, in privileging Other
over Self, O mirrors the point of infinity which the perfect circle of her name
symbolically represents, signifier of a lack that accepts itself, and in so
doing, becomes eternal"
Anonymous on Obscuri-tea
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it”
Bruce
Lee on Malleabili-tea
"Notice that
the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives
by bending with the wind"
Yodah Toveh on Humili-tea
“There are two
kinds of strengths: the strength to lead and the strength to follow; the
strength to control and the strength to yield. There are two kinds of power:
the power to strip another’s soul bare, and the power
to stand naked”
Madeleine
L'Engle on Vulnerabili-tea
"When we were
children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be
vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability ... To be alive is to be
vulnerable."
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