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When taxes are too high,
people go hungry.
When the government is too intrusive,
people lose their spirit.
Act for the people's benefit.
Trust them; leave them alone.
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Tao Te Ching, a New English Version, copyright ©️ 1988 by Stephen Mitchell, published by HarperCollins. All rights reserved.
A good parent sets training wheels on his child’s bicycle. A great one knows when to take them off. That next fall will teach him more than he ever could.
Offer them the gift of not being dependent on you.1
Quote of the Week
If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it.
- David Foster Wallace
Album of the Week (Official TTT Playlist here)
Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV 826 - Bach
Until next Tuesday!
Daniel
From Stephen Mitchell’s commentary on this chapter.