Prosperity is part of your being. We are one with the universe possessing infinite possibilities.When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Translations of Tao Tech Ching number FOUR
The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our
employment of it we must be on our guard against all fullness. How
deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of
all things!
We should blunt our sharp points, and unravel the complications of
things; we should attune our brightness, and bring ourselves into
agreement with the obscurity of others. How pure and still the Tao
is, as if it would ever so continue!
I do not know whose son it is. It might appear to have been before
God. - Translated by James Legge
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The subtle Way of the universe
appears to lack strength,
yet its power is inexhaustible.
Fathomless, it could be the origin of all things.
It has no sharpness,
yet it rounds off all sharp edges.
It has no form,
yet it unites all tangles.
It has no glare,
yet it merges all lights.
It harmonizes all things
and unites them as on integral whole.
It seems so obscure,
yet it is the Ultimate Clarity.
Whose offspring it is can never be known.
It is that which existed before any divinity.
- Translated by Master Hua-Ching Ni
