Daily Tao - 76

[bobby1933]

A baby's body is soft and gentle.
A corpse is hard and stiff.
Plants and trees are tender
and full of sap.
Dead leaves are brittle and dry.

If you are rigid and unyielding,
you might as well be dead.
If you are soft and flexible,
you are truly alive.

Soldiers trained to fight to the death will die.
A tree that cannot bend with the wind
will snap.

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Comments

[i_baster]

Well worth remembering. I often go back to the idea of going with the flow and being like a stick in the stream. It is such a common term but you really can apply it to your life if you think about it.

worth remembering

[bobby1933]

Yeah, :)