Personality Disorder ⁽⁸⁾

It is an objective fact that one person’s cognition may differ radically from another’s, and in most cases such differences cannot be changed in a few words. With someone far removed from you, the wisest course is to withhold judgment and stay silent. When two…

Over the past few days, a news story has shocked the Chinese-American community. A young Chinese couple—both graduates of Tsinghua University as undergraduates and of the University of California, San Diego, as master's students, and both later working as engineers at Google—suffered a family tragedy.

Character advances with tolerance; tolerance grows with knowledge. Hence one who would deepen his character must broaden his tolerance; and one who would broaden his tolerance must enlarge his knowledge. — Cai Gen Tan (Conversations from a Vegetable Root) In a normal, steady life, the…

Human beings have a right to be imperfect, and this right should not be taken away. Not only that, people should also have the right to desire the things they want and to have their own needs. Even if compromise is required, it should be…

Beyond inexhaustible truth there is no authority. And of truth, on the one hand, anyone may pursue it; on the other, no one may say he possesses the final truth. — Karl Jaspers Today I saw a joke. Someone asked on Zhihu: why is it…

In the act of giving, continually explore the unknown self, continually discover new aspects of the self, and persevere to the last moment of life. For this goal a person is bound to meet many difficulties. But the greater the difficulty, the more you will…

I walk down the street / There is a deep hole in the sidewalk / I fall in / I am lost ... I am helpless / It isn't my fault / It takes forever to get out. I walk down the same street /…

Attaining the mean and harmony—then heaven and earth are set in their places, and all things are nourished. — Liji, Zhongyong (Doctrine of the Mean) A person living in this world must have a qi of centered harmony. "Zhong" means not leaning to either side,…