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The Painted Drum
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could. ~Louise Erdrich (Book: The Painted Drum)
12/13/2023
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Embodying the Tao.” -- The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tsu (#47)
“If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao,
don’t get caught up in spiritual superficialities.
Instead, live a quiet and simple life,
free of ideas and concepts.
Find contentment in the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the only true power.
Giving to others selflessly and anonymously,
radiating light through the world
and illuminating your own darkness,
your virtue becomes a sanctuary
for yourself and all beings.
This is what is meant by embodying the Tao.”
-- Brian Walker’s translation of a truly remarkable book – Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tsu (#47)
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