#ChengYi

“Two students once stood motionless in falling snow rather than disturb their teacher's meditation; when he noticed them, the snow was a foot deep. Cheng Yi made study itself a spiritual discipline — and turned a sensibility into a school.”

“One principle runs through all things, and any thing honestly investigated — a classic, a court case, a blade of grass — yields another piece of it, until accumulated study suddenly breaks through into understanding.”