Where I Belong

Those who rule in accor­dance with Tao do not use force against the world
For that which is forced is like­ly to return

—Verse 30, Tao Te Ching

I may know bet­ter, I may under­stand what I’m sup­posed to accept, but that does­n’t make it any eas­i­er.

Sometimes the world is crash­ing down around you, and all you can do is watch.

Because you can’t yell at the sky to keep it from falling.

5 comments

  1. Have you read 365 Tao? My ther­a­pist is Taoist, I think.

    She said the book changed her life and she total­ly rec­om­mend­ed. Flipside: she also rec­om­mend­ed the Tao of Pooh, so I’m not total­ly sure…

  2. The Tao of Pooh is bet­ter and dif­fer­ent than you’d guess from the title.

  3. @Pearl — Do you mean “whis­per­er” as an idea of sub­tle force?

    @Maeko — Nope, I haven’t read that, but I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for it in the book­stores now.

    And I agree that The Tao of Pooh was pret­ty good. As sim­pli­fied as it was, it real­ly helped refine my under­stand­ing of Taoism.

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