Short can overtop tall.
Small can exceed large.
One can outnumber many.An edge can join to a centre.
Remoteness merges with closeness.
Solitude can accompany a multitude.
Advance by retreating.
See farther out by looking deeper within.
Enlighten the wordly by the darkness of the unwordly.
All being well?
'Allbeing-well'!
The sage is
often caricatured as a loner, misfit or social outcast,
immersed in the depths of an immaterial realm - or even
drowning in it!
Conversely, the 'worldly-wise' is
characterised by unequivocal and unquestioning attachment
to the superficiality of material existence.
Tao seeks harmony between these
extremes: by activating a personality's potential
'sage-aspect', with its inspirational and imaginative
powers,
to infuse,
invigorate and complement its abilities to survive and thrive
materially; a prescription for a well-balanced or wholesome
individual.
When
'the world is too much with us', a period
of retreat, or time in the
wilderness, frees the
over-occupied mind from mundane
trivialities,
and restores its relationship to a more fundamental and
essential nature. Tao portrays this as a rebalancing, or
reconnection to one's roots.
