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• 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. That 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 a...
• There’s nothing wrong with sorrow, anger, longing, or fear; a painful emotion is just a signal that you’ve left the center. When you are at peace, everything is at peace. What seemed like cacophony becomes the music of the spheres: a suite for unaccompanied mind. Living in harmony with the way things are, the mind finds its center everywhere, its c...
• The Tao that cannot be named is the intelligence of the universe: whatever is happening right now. The mind that realizes this is the don’t-know mind, which is open to all possibilities because it doesn’t believe its own thoughts. What more is there to say? Except that there’s a radiance about people who have settled into the depths of not-knowing....
• The place where the this and the that are not opposed to each other is called “the pivot of the Tao.” When we find this pivot, we find ourselves at the center of the circle, and here we sit, serene, while Yes and No keep chasing each other around the circumference, endlessly.
• The Master remains peaceful in the midst of continual change. There is nothing that can disturb her, nothing that she finds unacceptable. She welcomes all beings, watches as they come and go, and stays rooted in what is real.