A Time for Everything

This is an interpretation of the 29th verse of the Tao Te Ching. It makes for a lovely morning meditation.

Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?

I do not believe it can be done.

Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled.

Trying to control leads to ruin.

Trying to grasp, we lose.

Allow your life to unfold naturally.

Know that it too is a vessel of perfection.

Just as you breathe in and breathe out,

there is a time for being ahead

and a time for being behind;

a time for being in motion

and a time for being at rest;

a time for being vigorous

and a time for being exhausted;

a time for being safe

and a time for being in danger.

To the sage

all of life is movement toward perfection,

so what need has he

for the excessive, the extravagant, or the extreme?

The Tao Te Ching is a book of wisdom thought to be written by Lao-tzu 2,500 years ago using 5,000 Chinese characters.  There have been thousands of interpretations of the Tao, this one comes from Dr. Wayne Dyer's book Change Your Thoughts Change Your Life - Living the Wisdom of the Tao.