Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.
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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"Think fluidly, move and exercise like flowing water, and live life as if you were a river flowing through it." Bright-Fey
ReplyDeleteIn Wayne Dyer's chapter on Tao 78 he quotes the poem, Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver:
ReplyDeleteYou do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like wild geese, harsh and exciting---
over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Wayne Dyer, Tao 78 comment:
ReplyDeleteChange the way you look at strength verses weakness.
Do a meditation today in which you picture yourself as having the same qualities of water. Allow your soft, weak, yielding, fluid self to enter places where you were previously excluded because of your inclination to be solid and hard."