Tranquility
Tao Teh ChingChapter 64Peace and tranquility are easy to hold onto and keep. It is best to deal with matters before they present themselves. What is brittle shatters easily. What is small is easy to disperse. Deal with troubles before they have arisen. Establish order before disorder has reared itself. A large tree grows from a small twig. A terrace nine levels high starts with a clod of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If you rush into action heedlessly you will rush to your own failure. If you try to grasp things you will lose your grip. Therefore the sage does not try to rush to completion, and he does not grasp all about for things. In this way he avoids failure and losing. Often people fail in their endeavors on the verge of completion, this is because they exercise care at the beginning, and then slacken near the end. Take as full care of tasks at the end as at the beginning, this will ensure proper completion. Therefore the sage desires nothing so much as to be free from desire. He does not treasure things that are difficult to procure. He learns to not know. He practices a return to the natural origin of all things without a practice to that end.
Tao Teh ChingChapter 64Peace and tranquility are easy to hold onto and keep. It is best to deal with matters before they present themselves. What is brittle shatters easily. What is small is easy to disperse. Deal with troubles before they have arisen. Establish order before disorder has reared itself. A large tree grows from a small twig. A terrace nine levels high starts with a clod of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If you rush into action heedlessly you will rush to your own failure. If you try to grasp things you will lose your grip. Therefore the sage does not try to rush to completion, and he does not grasp all about for things. In this way he avoids failure and losing. Often people fail in their endeavors on the verge of completion, this is because they exercise care at the beginning, and then slacken near the end. Take as full care of tasks at the end as at the beginning, this will ensure proper completion. Therefore the sage desires nothing so much as to be free from desire. He does not treasure things that are difficult to procure. He learns to not know. He practices a return to the natural origin of all things without a practice to that end.
Tranquilion Peak, in the Lompoc Valley, California.This peak was a very important religious area for the ancient Chumash tribe, and even to this day it functions as an important site for them. It has a small cave near the top through which a shaft of light shines through a crack in the roof on the longest day of the year, as such it served an important astronomical function for the tribe.
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