Richard Wilhelm Quotes

• All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.

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  Buddhism   Men   Thinking  

  Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.

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  Men   Emotion   Found  

  Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.60, Princeton University Press

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• We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.

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  Energy   Cosmos   Able  

  Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.51, Princeton University Press

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• If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.

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  Emotional   Harmony   Intellect  

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