Zhuangzi 6

TaoismZhuangzi 6

There is the great Mass (of nature);--I find the support of my body on it; my life is spent in toil on it; my old age seeks ease on it; at death I find rest in it;--what makes my life a good makes my death also a good. …

✦ Surrender & trust ❃ Creation as sacred ⏳ Equanimity

The same idea in other traditions

JudaismPsalm 37:5

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him, and He will bring it to pass.

ChristianityPsalm 24:1

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

BuddhismDhammapada 81

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.

ConfucianismAnalects 7.23

The Master said, "Heaven produced the virtue that is in me. Hwan T'ui—what can he do to me?"

JainismUttaradhyayana 9.15

To a monk who has left his sons and wives, and who has ceased to act, nothing pleasant can occur, nor anything unpleasant.

SufismHafiz, Ode 3 (Bell)

Give me the cup! a voice rings in mine ears / Crying: “Bear patiently the bitter years! / For all thine ills, I send thee heavenly grace. …

SikhismSGGS Ang 8

Air is the Guru, Water is the Father, and Earth is the Great Mother of all. Day and night are the two nurses, in whose lap all the world is at play.

IslamQuran 8:61

But if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace, and trust in Allah: for He is One that heareth and knoweth (all things).

HinduismBhagavad Gita 12.15

He through whom the world is not agitated, and who is not agitated by the world, who is free from joy and anger and fear and agitation, he too is dear to me.