Enlightened Sayings and Simple Truths

Hey.. :( i’m in depression from few months. Please help me. What should i do now? me nd my girlfriend together from past 5months.. Bt now i came to know that she intimate with someone other before.. I love her so much bt cant stop thinking about this that she intimate with some one other nd she nevet told me. What should i do now? :’( :’( she still use to talk him nd lies me everytime! She use to take fake swears of me. :( after all this happen i don’t know why i still love her.. Loveyouuuuu baby :’( i cant unlove you but dont know what to do.. Plzz help me :’( what to do frndzz? :'( i m helpless

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Return is the movement of the Tao.
Yielding is the way of the Tao.

All things are born of being.
Being is born of non-being.

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When a superior man hears of the Tao,
he immediately begins to embody it.
When an average man hears of the Tao,
he half believes it, half doubts it.
When a foolish man hears of the Tao,
he laughs out loud.
If he didn’t laugh,
it wouldn’t be the Tao.

Thus it is said:
The path into the light seems dark,
the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long,
true power seems weak,
true purity seems tarnished,
true steadfastness seems changeable,
true clarity seems obscure,
the greatest are seems unsophisticated,
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.

The Tao is nowhere to be found.
Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

— Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell Translation)

Another one of my favorites:
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, that’s why it’s called the present.

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”

– Buddha

“Everyone poops.”

Read The 48 Laws of Power. It will provide more enlightenment into the human condition than anything else. We are all but animals wearing polite masks and acting sophisticated but make no mistake you are living in the jungle.

“Whatever all of this is, it is.”

” I know that I am. I exist. I need not search for meaning, for that is meaningful enough.”

The other version of that quote it ” I am. I exist. There is no need to search for truth. There is no need to search for meaning. For the fundamental fact of I am IS the meaning and THE truth!”

” You can’t use concepts to understand reality, you can only use concepts to understand the concept of reality. To truly know, you must directly experience. It requires no thought, only feeling.”

These are good, but I think it’s important to overcome the viewpoint that those who think like ‘us’ are somehow superior for seeing past the facade. Not implying that OP or anyone else does this, but it is a trap that is easily fallen into.

‘Religion is for the weak’ in particular strikes me as narrow minded. The religions of the world constitute the groundwork for the very philosophy that you’re writing about: elightenment. I think it is the improper and far too literal interpretation of religion that creates the problem. We have to be careful not to allow our ego to place us above others simply because we see the world in a way that we deem as better. Otherwise we are part of the problem.

Religion isn’t for the weak actually, it’s for people who don’t over-analyze simple truths.