Welcome to reality,
When people are born
they are gentle and soft.
At death,
they are hard and stiff.
When plants are alive,
they are soft and delicate.
When they die,
they wither and dry up.
Therefore the hard and stiff are followers of death.
The gentle and soft are the followers of life.
Thus, if you're aggressive and stiff, you won't win.
When a tree is hard enough, it is cut.
Therefore the hard and big are lesser, the gentle and soft are greater.
Tao Te Ching (76) |
