Before sorrow, anger,
longing, or fear have arisen,
you are in the center.
When these emotions appear
and you know how to see through them,
you are in harmony.
The center is the root of the universe;
that harmony is the Tao,
which reaches out to all things.
Once you find the center
and achieve harmony,
heaven and earth take their proper places
and all things are fully nourished.
Ripples…
“Living in harmony with the way things are, the mind finds its center everywhere, its circumference nowhere. The part becomes the whole; what is becomes what should be. Heaven takes its proper place, its only place: on earth.”
The Second Book of the Tao, Stephen Mitchell, p. 5
Rooting and Rising 