Live your life like water;

It flows from mountain to the sea,

On its way the water is giving,

And serves all creatures, you and me.

Hills and boulders block not its way,

For water will always flow around

And settle not for it recycles

Even when the sea it's found.

When life you find is dull or dreary

And problems build to make you weary,

Remember Wu Wei, to flow around.

It is not life which blocks your progress,

But the stubborn self-made dam.



from Lao Tzu's "unwritten verse" of Tao Te Ching by Mike Symonds