Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 78 - Yielding

     Like water, yield to those hard and rigid places that present themselves as obstacles. In yielding there is strength not weakness.

     " A soft answer turns away wrath."  The Tao teaches a gentler, more powerful way of being, so paradoxical to what we have been taught in Western culture.

     The Way of Tao is a kinder path in life: effective and compassionate.  It is doing without doing; it is overcoming without force; it is the power of peace.