It’s useless for you to try to be like me, or for me to try to be like you, or even for us to try to be like ourselves. Rather, let’s set that notion aside and be no one — completely, fully, freely, dynamically.
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Categories: A Few More Scratches
Tags: Be Here Now, Freedom, Identity
William Michaelian 
Du und ich, wir sind wir in unserer ganz eigenen Art, und wir bleiben uns treu. Jemand anderer zu sein, wäre für mich undenkbar.
Danke fürs Ankurbeln der kleinen Zellen…
❤
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Bubbles in the stream, or leaves, enjoying the ride… thank you, Edith…
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So, you ARE a Taoist. I knew it! So was Thoreau, he just didn’t know it.
Welcome to the club.
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It’s a club? I was hit with one of those once.
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Okay, okay. Welcome to the Temple of life.
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Thank you. Of course what I mean to say is, I don’t think of myself as a Taoist, or anything else. I’m just your basic amateur human being — part rock, part star, part lizard’s tail. As such, I can cook up a pretty decent pan of beans.
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Dr. Edward O. Wilson, eminent Evolutionay Biologist and Harvard professor (author of Sociobiology) coined the term Biophilia, which is basically the love of animals and nature. All children are biophilic but most grow out of it.
Taoism is a philosophy, not a religion, rather like Transcendentalism (Emerson, Whitman Thoreau).
I am Biophilic, which may be why I’m a poet. In my opinion, Lao Tzu was the original biophilic poet.
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I left out an r. Sorry.
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I’ve read a bit of Wilson and found it a delight. His was a rich insight, with far-reaching reverberations.
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Great! Now read the Tao Te Ching, 81 poems that changed the world.😀
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2,600 years old, BTW.
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As simple and profound as the bark of a Giant Sequoia.
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I would also note (yes, I’m lonely. My wife is watching the stupid Astros game) that some have said that the teachings of Siddhartha (Buddha) and Jesus were inspired by Lao tzu.
“I have three treasures that I hold and keep:
frugality,
compassion,
humility.”
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