Every night, I read one new passage — then every morning, I read that same passage again.
Presuming you miss a few readings, you can then complete the entire Tao in less than three months (or: four times per year, cyclically).
This gives you time to digest each passage, be it in dreams or daytime. Nobody will ever fully understand these texts.
>#23 — "he who does not trust enough will not be trusted"
For my next read-through, I will paste Ursula's words alongside Ms. English's.
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If you have not read The Dispossessed, this is a great intro to LaGuin's perspectiveS.
>The ten thousand things carry yin and embrace yang.
>They achieve harmony by combining these forces.
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>For one gains by losing.
>And loses by gaining.
From Tao #28
>Knowing light and staying dark, be a pattern to the world.
>Being the world's pattern of eternal unerring power is to go back again to boundlessness.
Every night, I read one new passage — then every morning, I read that same passage again.
Presuming you miss a few readings, you can then complete the entire Tao in less than three months (or: four times per year, cyclically).
This gives you time to digest each passage, be it in dreams or daytime. Nobody will ever fully understand these texts.
>#23 — "he who does not trust enough will not be trusted"
For my next read-through, I will paste Ursula's words alongside Ms. English's.
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If you have not read The Dispossessed, this is a great intro to LaGuin's perspectiveS.