Day 20: A correction. Tao, Some Nautical Allusions of my own and Things when I most need them.

Apparently, I misquoted a certain witch. The corrected quote is:
"Much as I respect the bottle, the point is that the bottle must be respected."
My apologies (*grin*).

Also, RDP has posted a Longfellow poem, which seems like an eerie echo of this verse from the Tao Te Ching:

Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?

At this moment, I'm stillness FAIL.
In the last two months, I've imploded more than once.
I've been feeding my fears and giving in to paranoia.
I need to find some way of remembering Tao, (the rather cheesy logic of the waves) and the importance of Slayage

When you use the Way to conquer the world,
Your demons will lose their power to harm.
It is not that they lose their power as such,
But that they will not harm others;
Because they will not harm others,
You will not harm others:
When neither you nor your demons can do harm, 
You will be at peace with them.

Day 18: Reflections on growing old

No, no. It's not my birthday or anything.
I was thinking about my younger self this morning. And how she was able to contain her Rage.
Yes, yes - angry outbursts, indignation, all that, yes. But she could deal with it - allow it come to her, consume her and still be resurrected.

Now, only a few years later, I crumple at the first spark. I'm tired and feel like I have no strength left at all.
Sigh.

Or maybe I was so much older then and I'm younger than that now.