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In my youth I listened to rain on a singing-tower, red candles dimming the silken curtains. In my prime I listened to rain in a traveler's boat, wide river, low clouds, a lone goose crying in the west wind. Now I listen to rain beneath…

In the evening, riding my bicycle back from the vegetable garden at the foot of Fragrant Hills, I looked up and saw a bright moon hanging high in the sky. In that moment my heart suddenly became incomparably light and at peace. In my mind…

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…

For an INFP personality, the best way to heal is solitude. Even when covered in wounds, after a month or two alone he can fully heal himself, sweeping away depression, anxiety, grief, impulsivity, and other negative emotions. In healing himself, he reads widely, opening one…

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…

Darkness can glow; silence can speak; quiet surpasses a thousand words. — Epigraph Reaching midlife, we feel ever more strongly that time returns everything we have to dust. Our elders leave us one after another; among our own generation, people too have begun to bow…

More than ten years ago, a cervical-cancer patient came to me for help. She was already critically ill: severe intestinal obstruction had left her unable to pass stool for over a week, and excruciating pain was more than she could bear. She was hospitalized in…

At every moment of life, a person is both the image of his future and the likeness of his past. — Oscar Wilde, De Profundis Every time my wife's workplace organizes a health checkup, once the results come back, several colleagues are found to have…

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,…

Today is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. By Chinese folk legend, on the night of Qixi the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet again in the sky, so Qixi is China's Valentine's Day. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is…