Men are born soft and supple;
dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.
Translation of the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchel
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Layer upon layer
She finds deep in her own experience the central truths of the art of living, which are paradoxical only on the surface: that the more truly solitary we are, the more compassionate we can be; the more we let go of what we love, the more present our love becomes; the clearer our insight into what is beyond good and evil, the more we can embody the good. Until finally she is able to say, in all humility, "I am the Tao, the Truth, the Life." S. Mitchell
Translation of the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell, Harper & Row, 1988. In keeping with copyright law only the chapter under study is fulltext. All other chapters show only the first stanza.
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Layer upon layer
This is what we can do--remain supple, changeable, teachable, humble. The soft and supple can learn the power of their being--they cannot be broken--their strength is to remain true--to remember that they are children of God, of the Tao--don't meet anger with anger, hate with hate, inflexibility with inflexibility. Meet the resistance with the knowledge that you know who you are. You know you are Self. Keep living, keep walking forward with olive branch and sword.
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