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Monday, May 14

In Tao the only motion is returning;
The only useful quality, weakness.
For though all creatures under heaven are the products of Being,
Being itself is the product of Not-being.
-- Tao Te Ching

I've been thinking lately and writing things I (mostly) am not going to share. It seems like everyone is concerned with doing things, with ambition, and with being Useful. I don't want to be useful. I just want to be kind. I want to be weak and to share my weaknesses with others.

Why should we not become experts at crunching soft ice between our teeth or placing our feet, breathlessly, into freezing summer waters? Most true things I feel I know experientially through creativity and metaphor, through long organic conversations with good friends. Someone email me and tell me a secret. (I need to get out of Oklahoma soon!)

posted by Brent, 2:46:00 PM

1 Comments:

Everyone is weak, whether they'd like to accept that or not is another story. In Life, some can just be...enjoy and take in what comes their way...Other's push and pull to experience everything...to be something...to leave their mark when they are gone. But in the end...we are all the same. Weak. Here. It's humbling to think just how fragile we really are.

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