54- Tao Te Ching

Whoever is rooted in the Tao
will not be rooted up.
Whoever embraces the Tao
will not slip away.
Her name will be held in honor
from generation to generation.

Let the Tao be present in your life
and you will become genuine.
Let it be present in your family
and your family will flourish.
Let it be present in your country
and your country will be an example
to all countries in the world.
Let it be present in the universe
and the universe will sing.

How do I know this is true?
By looking inside myself.

9- Tao Te Ching

"Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be your prisoner.

Do your work, and then step back.
The only path to serenity."

Love after Love, by Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door. in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life. whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters fro the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.