I WOULD LOVE TO BE A MERMAID FOR A DAY. HOW 'BOUT YOU?
There something about water. "When you reach into a river and try to squeeze it tight, you end up losing it all. Water is elusive until you cease grasping it and let your hand relax and be one with it- paradoxically, you get it by letting go. Water appears to be something you could easily overpower. However, it's so flexible that once you push it out of the way, it will find its own level below all strong things and patiently enter where nothing solid can block its resting place. Put up barricades, erect levees, and make everything waterproof; yet with enough passage of time, the flexible quality of water will triumph. "The weak overcomes the strong" is a powerful message for you. Remember to stay flexible, willing to lower yourself in humility and appear weak, but knowing that you're in harmony with the tao. Lao-Tzu urges you to be like the master who remains "serene in the midst of sorrow," and evil will not be able to enter your heart. Water is so soft that it can't be harmed, damaged, or destroyed."
Dyer- from verse 78, living the Tao
4 comments:
i like that analogy.
and yes, i have often wanted to be a mermaid.
I love to swim and be in the water. While I have great respect for huge bodies of water, I have never had a morbid fear of the ocean, when thrown about underwater, twirling upside down and all around in a huge wave, I just let it do it's thing and then after it passes over, come up for air. Yes, I often pretend to be a mermaid in the ocean.
What beautiful mermaids you girls make,
love those mermaids, if i had posted ronna would have pinched my ear..
who drew or painted them?
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