"Wild winds never last all morning
and fierce rains never last all day.
Who conjures such things if not heaven and earth,
and if heaven and earth can't make things last,
why should we humans try?"
- Verse 23
(Hinton translation)
"If you aren't free of yourself
how will you ever become yourself?"
Can I get an Amen up in here?! Getting a Rupaul vibe from Verse 7 ?
The way that can be spoken of
Is not the constant way;
The name that can be named
Is not the constant name.
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#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
pickBeautiful. I wish I had read this years ago so I could keep coming back to it. It reminds me I need to consistently read to feed my soul in this day and age.
Something I came across in my mindfulness/MH reading that made me stop and think🤍
Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living and one of the wonders of the world.
“We shape clay into a pot but the emptiness inside holds whatever we want - we hammer wood for a house but it‘s the inner space that makes it livable - we work with being, but non-being is what we use.”
It's hard to get someone (aka. President Pumpkinhead) to care about nature and the environment, when their idea of the "great outdoors" is a ??? golf course!!
#QuotsyJun20 #nature
@TK-421
