Let’s find a Way today

There is a need to find this way of personal integrity stitching our days “each to each” in a simple seeking, and becoming.
This is an idea with deep consequences for personal satisfaction and happiness, as well as the predicate for being effective in the world in those things we care about “out there”.
Now…making the distinction of what are those things that do and do not matter…. That feels like life work.

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Let’s find a Way today,
that can take us to tomorrow.
We’ll follow that Way,
A Way like flowing water.

The Tao of things and non-things

From a systems view there is a hierarchy exemplified here. This derives out of that.
There is a singularity out of which all things occur and manifest. It seems to me being aware of this deep context provides the place of strength and peace while encountering the seemingly unresolvable issues of the day.
That, and understanding that every thing that we see is governed by a level we do not. Questioning after that level is key to deeper understanding of the things we do engage with.

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Tao Te Ching: Chapter 11
translated by Stephen Mitchell

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being
but non-being is what we use