Tao of Distance : Reflections on The Way of Travel by Eric McCarty

Author:Eric McCarty [McCarty, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Loneliest Monk Publishing
Published: 2019-03-19T23:00:00+00:00

Verse 42

Lao-tzu:

The Tao provides unity,

Unity provides duality,

Duality provides trinity,

Trinity provides the myriad things.

~

We run alone - yet not without others. The spaciousness of our solitude is

matched by the fullness of nature. It's our connection - and a

runners reach is found in thought and stride.

We say much in the quiet exchange of a glance...and so

much more shared on the common path we

travel.

The world is vast...and yet we find ourselves together.

We are pieces of a whole and more - we are the whole as well. As runners we become mindful of a shared aloneness. As miles accumulate our loneliness expands to truly be a lone experience of all that is. Nothing, no one, can be excluded as then we would enter back into duality. Running seems solitary only in the illusion of thought and body. In stillness we are the hushed nature of reality. In motion we sweep the world with the stride of our caress. Distance is the common factor that removes illusions of being kept apart. We run to know ourselves as whole. We run to know ourselves as one. We run to find ourselves together.

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