Thursday 27 December 2018

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell






What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.





Let your workings remain a mystery.  Just show people the results.





We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.  We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.  We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable.  We work with being, but non-being is what we use.