A little bit of Tao

A little bit of Tao

A little bit of otherness

A good dose of Qi

I walk the Way.

It’s not time to get hostile,

Aggression is infantile,

Best to direct one’s fire,

To fuel one’s passion.

"A leaf fluttered in ...."

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Anais Nin

"I think I could turn and live ...."

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d,

I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

Walt Whitman

"That which God said to the rose ....:

That which God said to the rose,

And caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,

He said to my heart,

And made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Rumi