"For us, our house is not insentient matter—it has a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals, and solicitudes, and deep sympathies; it is of us, and we are in its confidence, and live in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. We never come home from an absence that its face does not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome—and we can not enter it unmoved."
—Mark Twain, 1896
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Tao-Te Ching of nothingness

Extraordinary how nothing can be so immeasurably powerful, yet supremely humble. Lao Tzu* tells us to empty ourselves of everything so that the mind can become still**.


In the quiet of my early morning nothingness, while the sky was still cloaked in ebbing darkness, the extravagance of winter’s palette, gray velvet; orange satin; and dulling shades of canary yellow, splashed over the edge.


　
*Lao Tzu
(circa 570-490 BC (?))
Chinese Taoist Philosopher,
Founder of Taoism and
author of the Tao Te Ching

**reference to the Tao Te Ching @ chapter 16
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