Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
Yesterday I was clever that is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise that is why I am changing myself.
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.
Rain down your wisdom in sacred streams to carry me like an upturned leaf through the currents of this grey day.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
