Know the personal,
yet keep to the impersonal:
accept the world as it is.
If you accept the world,
the Tao will be luminous inside you
and you will return to your primal self.
yet keep to the impersonal:
accept the world as it is.
If you accept the world,
the Tao will be luminous inside you
and you will return to your primal self.
~
Our motion is not the opposite of stillness - it's the extension of our
essential selves seeking to know its own unexplored parts.
Every hill and sudden twist in the path shows an aspect of
self that yearns for our embrace.
Nothing is fought - for every battle is internal and
every victim is slain is our own defeat.
We run - surrendering to each moment and finding grace in the
stride of our acceptance.
Our motion is not the opposite of stillness - it's the extension of our
essential selves seeking to know its own unexplored parts.
Every hill and sudden twist in the path shows an aspect of
self that yearns for our embrace.
Nothing is fought - for every battle is internal and
every victim is slain is our own defeat.
We run - surrendering to each moment and finding grace in the
stride of our acceptance.
- We run to bring the stillness of our being to unexplored regions of both our inner and outer worlds. Giving up the struggle of how far and how fast we return to primal travelers seeking shadows to offer light and joining in the play of their dynamics. We are part of all things and simply wish to experience every depth of our dimension. In the acceptance of duality we discover our singular expression - the steepest hill before us offers something different on its far side - and yet a hill it remains. We accept it on terms the world offers and bring our own grace to the experience. We bring our best to the world - and the worlds response if full of wonder.
Peace,
Eric
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Portion of the Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell
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