Sunday, February 23, 2025

there is a be(ing








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The Tao is forever changing —

Alteration, movement without rest,

Flowing through the six empty places,

Rising and sinking without fixed law,

Firm and yielding transform each other.

They cannot be confined within a rule,

It is only change that is at work here.


—The I Ching, Book of Changes



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There is a being wonderful, perfect; It existed before heaven and earth. How quiet it is! How spiritual it is!

It stands alone and it does not change; It moves, but does not on that account suffer. All life comes from it, yet it does not demand to be Lord.

I do not know its name, so I call it Tao, the Way,

And I rejoice in its power.


—Lao-tzu
Tao Te Ching, 25th Chapter



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God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being and let God be God in you.


—Meister Eckhart


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