Chapter 23
Be like the forces of nature--express yourself completely, do your work, then keep quiet, let it go. KNOW--WILL--DARE--BE SILENT. The works and actions of heaven and earth are only transitory. How much more so are the works of humans? If you open yourself to the TAO, you are at one with the TAO, and you can embody it completely. If you open yourself to nature, you are at one with nature and you can use it completely. If you open yourself to loss, you are at one with loss, and you can accept it completely, and thus gain. Open yourself to the TAO. Trust your natural responses, everything will settle into place. He who has TAO has all things naturally disposed; his own failure creates the illusion of general failure. The "works" of heaven and earth, and consequently even man, do not last long, and are thus transient. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER. The TAO lasts forever, and hence is not a work of man, earth, or of heaven, but precedes all. The O-region of all and the predecessor, ancestor, originator of all. AWEsome!