If you think about it, this planet Earth is a Garden of Eden. Every conceivable variety of fruit, flower and plant exists. Healing and savory herbs, whatever your pleasure, Nature has provided.
Aside from the natural world, inventions of every kind have been created to ease, delight and make our lives efficient and easier. It is easy to get caught up in what the world of the 10,000 things dangles in front of us. But do they, after all, bring lasting peace and lasting joy?
I have often quoted from the Bible, both Old and New Testaments which aline with the ancient wisdom of the Tao, but other formal religions and beliefs also share concepts as well. This truth of "your eye being single, then your whole body is full of light", is brought to mind when I read this 35th verse of the Tao Te Ching.
When we focus on this life giving Presence, all fleeting pleasures of the world pale in comparison to the abiding peace and love found in "keeping our eye single."
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