slideshow – Marley Peifer

Spoken Reflections From Tanzania: Hadza Day Six

Do the Non-Ado.
Strive for the effortless.
Savor the savorless.
Exalt the low.
Multiply the few.
Requite injury with kindness.
Nip troubles in the bud.
Sow the great in the small.
Difficult things of the world
can only be tackled when they are easy.
Big things of the world
Can only be achieved by attending to their small beginnings.
Thus, the sage never has to grapple with big things,
Yet he alone is capable of achieving them!
He who promises lightly must be lacking in faith.
He who thinks everything easy will end by finding everything difficult.
Therefore, the sage, who regards everything as difficult,
meets with no difficulties in the end.

Tao Teh Ching