Deliberate, as if treading over stones of a winter brook
Laozi, Tao Te Ching 15
Watchful, as if meeting danger on all sides
Reverent, as if receiving an honored guest
Selfless, like a melting block of ice
Pure, like an uncarved block of wood
Accepting, like an open valley
Eyes look but cannot see it
Laozi, Tao Te Ching 14
Ears listen but cannot hear it
Hands grasp but cannot touch it
Beyond the senses lies the great Unity –
invisible, inaudible, intangible
The usefulness of what is
Laozi, Tao Te Ching 11
depends on what is not
Clay is molded to form a cup
Laozi, Tao Te Ching 11
yet only the space within
allows the cup to hold water
Thus being and nonbeing produce each other
Laozi, Tao Te Ching 2
Difficult and easy bring about each other
Long and short reveal each other
High and low support each other
The unity is said to be the mystery
Laozi, Tao Te Ching 1
Mystery of mysteries, the door to all wonders
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am
Voltaire
Owning less is better than organising more
Joshua Becker
What we call the beginning is often the end
T S Eliot, Little Gidding
And to make an end is to make a beginning
