Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Staying Simple
Be blessed
in the basic awareness
of knowing
you do not know
the answers,
In this humbleness
is strength
guiding all
toward their own true nature,
Not the weakness
of complicated cleverness
that disguises the ego
as the master,
Be willing
to blend peacefully
into common-place cycles of life
with sensible precaution
of the silent destiny
always at work,
regardless of your particular opinion,
There lies comforting understanding,
within faithful surrender to the unknown,
invisible, inevitable presence,
that a clearer pattern exists,
Containing the joy
of simply being
amidst the unforced process
of the Tao.
Gordon Neumann
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."