Quote for week of 2/3/14

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Under heaven everyone knows that the existence of beauty

depends on the existence of ugliness.

Everyone knows the capacity of kindness

depends on the existence of the unkind.

Existence and nothingness are mutually born,

difficult and easy complete each other,

long and short shape each other,

tall and short rest upon each other,

sound and music harmonize each other,

before and after follow one another.

Because of this the sage

dwells in the world of non-action,

practices teaching without speaking.

The ten thousand beings rise and fall

and she does makes no claim on them.

She creates but does possess them.

She works but does not take credit for it.

Because she does not take credit for her accomplishments

they will last forever.

                                  Daode Jing Chapter 2