I recently found this quote on a website for an acupuncture office in Berkeley, CA ( http://wuwei-acupuncture.com/serv.html ). It just seems so appropos to how I'm trying to see things these days:
In the quest for knowledge, one acquires something every day.
In the path towards wisdom, one loses something every day.
One loses and loses until there is nothing left to do.
In doing nothing, nothing is left undone.
The world is won by those who have learned to let go,
It is only when we try and try, push and grasp
that the world is then beyond our reach.
--Tao Te Ching
We just watched "Memoirs of a Geisha" for the second time last night and I loved the scene near the end of the movie where Sayuri is standing on top of a cliff overlooking the ocean and throws the Chairman's handkerchief to the wind as a symbol of her letting go. The next scenes of course then lead up to her reuniting with her beloved Chairman, and having her dream to be with him finally come true.
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