Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 76 - Yielding

      The nature of the Tao can be seen as a paradox.  The hardest things manifest weakness while those things that are flexible and yielding are strong and full of life.  Rigidity, brittleness and hard resolve are weaknesses and stagnations.  In nature that which does not grow, dies.

     So often the higher ways of the Tao run counter to our Western values.  Have our hard lines and opinionated views brought us peace or most importantly, harmony with the nature of the Tao?

     We live on a planet with astounding diversity.  Being willing to listen and respect those whose ways are different from ours, is strength and ultimately will bring us closer to our life-giving Source.