tao te ching: 29

from Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English’s translation:
Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?I do not believe it can be done.
The universe is sacred.You cannot improve it.If you try to change it, you will ruin it.If you try to hold it, you will lose it.
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes [...]

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Meera Song

I sailed in a swinginto sleep
saw Him
–and allunsung,me asleep!
I rushedto appease,to greet
fellinto a deepwaking,
and lost him.
Those otherthan me, [...]

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