Not-doing

[One who] is going to desire to take the empire and to make it.

I see him not obtain it;

that is all.

The empire [is] a divine vessel.

Not can it be made, indeed.

[Who] makes it, the one, mars it.

[Who] takes hold of it, the one loses it.

Therefore of beings some go on, others follow,

some breathe warmly, others breathe coldly,

some [are] strong, others [are] weak,

some succeed [are filled with a cargo] others succumb [come out vanquished].

Therefore the holy man abandons pleasures abandons extravagance, abandons indulgence.

Know not how to sing

Know not how to sing

Know not how to cry

Learning to learn

new tunes and notes

in time after.

 

Do you see what I see

 

When nature beckons, go!

"Life is like a train of moods ...."

Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One by one the sands are flowing ...."

One by one the sands are flowing, 

One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going;
Do not strive to grasp them all.

Hours are golden links, God's token

Reaching heaven; but one by one

Take them, lest the chain be broken

Ere the pilgrimage be done.

Adelaide Anne Procter

"Love brings ecstasy ...."

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... I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness - that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined....

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Bertrand Russell