Chapter 35

Those who are centered in the TAO, those who hold the great image, can go where they wish without fear or danger. They perceive the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because they have found peace in their core. Others will be attracted to their presence, finding peace, contentment, ease, repose, comfort, security, and joy. Music or the smell of good food may lure people to stop and take interest, but words that point to the TAO seem monotonous and without flavor, boring, bland and stale, harsh and insipid. When you look for it there is nothing to see. When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear. But when you use it, it is inexhaustible. It is this eternal quality, this "holding power", that eventually returns the seeker back to the TAO.