Don’t chase after people’s approval.
Don’t depend on your plans.
Don’t make decisions;
let decisions make themselves.
Free yourself of concepts;
don’t believe what you think.
Embody the inexhaustible.
Wander beyond all paths.
Receive what you have been given
and know that it is always enough.
The Master’s mind is like a mirror:
it responds but doesn’t store,
contains nothing, excludes nothing,
and reflects things exactly as they are.
Thus she has what she wants
and wants only what she has.
The Second Book of the Tao
—Stephen Mitchell
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