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Just as it is more intelligent to sail than to row... So the ancient philosophy of the Tao is of a skillful and intelligent following of the course, current, and grain of natural phenomena – seeing human life as an integral feature of the world process, and not as something alien and opposed to it...

In the long run, we simply have no other alternative than to work along with this process by attitudes and methods which could be as effective technically as judo, the "gentle Tao", is effective athletically.

As human beings have to make the gamble of trusting one another in order to have any kind of workable community, we must also take the risk of trimming, our sails to the winds of nature. For our "selves" are inseparable from this kind of universe, and there is nowhere else.


by Alan Watts - Tao, The Watercourse Way - @ahimsafeed