Do your work, then step back

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people’s approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.

- Lao Tzu

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Do your work, then step back is the only path to serenity:
We are never satisfied with empty bowl, sharpen knife or riches. We really need to know when enough is enough.
Being content to be simply ourselves we will be free (not a prisoner to others) when we stop comparing and contrasting ourselves with others.