The Tao of Emerson by Richard Grossman

Author:Richard Grossman [Grossman, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-42440-2
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

When a man, through stubbornness,

insists to do this or that,

Something absurd or whimsical,

only because he will,

He is weak.

He blows with his lips against the tempest;

He calms the incoming ocean with his cane.

Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,

Sit still and truth is near;

Suddenly, it will uplift

Your eyelids to the sphere:

Wait a little, you shall see.

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Those who possessed in the highest degree

the attributes of the Tao

Did not seek to show them,

And therefore they possessed them in fullest measure.

Those who possessed in a lower degree those attributes

Sought how not to lose them,

And therefore they did not possess them in fullest measure.

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