tao-te-ching

Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter but as a patterned intensity of language, the whole thing is poetry. I wanted to catch that poetry, its terse, strange beauty. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority.

Revere the unity of all-that-iscarry out your daily activities with compassion;if you do not limit your compassion,you yourself will not be limited.

The heart that gives, gathers.

I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.

He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.Its bones are soft, its muscles are weak,but its grip is powerful.It doesn't know about the unionof male and female,yet its penis can stand erect,so intense is its vital power.It can scream its head off all day,yet it never becomes hoarse,so complete is its harmony.The Master's power is like this.He lets all things come and goeffortlessly, without desire.He never expects results;thus he is never disappointed.He is never disappointed;thus his spirit never grows old.

Leading people is like cookingDon__ stir too much__t annoys the ingredients__nd spoils the food

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad.

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

To think, or not to think...This is the true question.

Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name__ the motherof the ten thousand things.