There's a challenge making the rounds at DD now to take the book nearest to you right now, as you are reading this, open it to page 23, and post the fifth line in your diary. Here's mine.
From Lao Tzu Tao te Ching, A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way
- Ursula LeGuin
Page 23:
Nothing and Not
Nature doesn't make long speeches.
A whirlwind doesn't last all morning.
A cludburst doesn't last all day.
Who makes the wind and rain?
Heaven and earth do.
If heaven and earth don't go on and on,
certainly people don't need to.
The people who work with Tao
are Tao people,
they belong to the Way.
People who work with power
belong to power.
People who work with loss
belong to what's lost.
Give yourself to the Way
and you'll be at home on the Way.
Give yourself to power
and you'll be at home in power.
Give yourself to loss
and when you're lost you'll be at home.
To give no trust
is to get no trust.