Monday, March 30, 2009

Home free

Oh my. Take a look at this:
Everything matters: how we vote, how we tie our shoelaces, how we respond to the faintest whisper of a thought. And nothing matters, because (look!) it's already gone. When we understand this, we're home free.
It's from Stephen Mitchell's new translation of the works of Lao-tzu's disciple Chuang-tzu and Confucius's grandson Tzu-Ssu. It's called The Second Book of the Tao.

1 comment:

  1. We're having a local election here on Saturday. I need that reminder--that my vote counts, because I feel like it's so insignificant right now.

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