Falling upward …

How surely gravity’s law,strong as an ocean current,takes hold of even the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world …This is what the things can teach us:to fallpatiently to trust our heaviness.Rainer Maria Rilke: Book of Hours

Turning and turning …

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The...

Life, all life …

Life, all life began without words. Life is made – and no one owns it. The Tao is neither selfish nor proud.The Tao is generous and graceful in what it doesWithout ever claiming any meritAnd the sage’s greatness lies in taking no...

Man follows the earth …

Man follows the earth.Earth follows the universe.The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself. Open yourself to the Tao,then trust your natural responses;and everything will fall into place.Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true...