It is true that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in different human cultures, different times, different cultural environments, or different religious traditions.

If they meet; if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.

Werner Heisenberg

3.06.2011

TAO 24- Some Things Can't Be Changed

Those who stand on tiptoes
do not stand firmly.
Those who rush ahead
don't get very far.
Those who try to outshine others
dim their own light.
Those who call themselves righteous
can't know how wrong they are.
Those who boast of their accomplishments
diminish the things they have done.

Compared to the Tao, these actions are unworthy.
If we are to follow the Tao,
we must not do these things.


Lesson:  All the intellectual babbling, chest pounding, righteous legislating, bragging about saving the world one solar stove at a time, and political leadership makes no difference at all.

Unless and until we accept that 
Thermodynamics is the driving force of the Universe, oblivious to all human efforts to the contrary, we will continue to run blindly beyond Gaia’s ability to maintain homeostasis.  We do so at our own peril.


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