Fundamentally
the Path is wordless, and
the Truth is birthless. Wordless words
are used to reveal the birthless Truth. There is
no second thing. As soon as you try to pursue and catch
hold of the wordless Path and the birthless Truth,
you have already stumbled
past it.
The heart
of Tao is immortal,
the mysterious fertile mother of
us all, of heaven and earth, of every
thing and not-thing. Invisible yet
ever present, you can use it
forever without using
it up.
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Courage
is the measure
of our heartfelt participation
with life, with another, with a community,
a work; a future. To be courageous is not necessarily
to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those
things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending
vulnerabilities of those consequences. To be courageous is to seat
our feelings deeply in the body and in the world: to live up to
and into the necessities of relationships that often already
exist, with things we find we already care deeply
about: with a person, a future, a possibility
in society, or with an unknown that
begs us on and always has
begged us on.
