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The Master

I love my brother. He's a bastard, but he's still my brother. He told me the other day that he's the master of reading other people's moods. Perhaps he is. I reckon it's one thing to read them, another thing to affect them.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good, other things become bad.
Being and non-being create each other.
Difficult and easy support each other.
Long and short define each other.
High and low depend on each other.
Before and after follow each other.

Therefore the Master acts without doing anything

and teaches without saying anything.

Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess, acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.

That is why it lasts forever.

It can't be taught. When we meet would we ever know?

There's a song by Hal that just came through my headphones, it's called Keep Love As Your Golden Rule

Put your hang ups in the closet Put the fears you have in a box Come on baby pull up your socks And sunbeams will shine They will give you light in the dark Don’t give yourself a head start Cause the radios beating its tune All the crackles through the waves And there ain’t nobody to blame So keep trying baby be brave Don’t listen to what they say Keep going you’ve come all this way It’s evident do as you do Cause your just so beautiful Keep love as your golden rule Keep loving the way you do Cause that’s what those stars are saying And count your many blessings And sunbeams will shine They’ll give you light in the dark Lets get ourselves a head start Cause the radios beating its tune All the crackles through the waves And there ain’t nobody to blame So keep trying baby be brave Don’t listen to what they say Keep going you’ve come all this way It’s evident do as you do Cause your just so beautiful Keep love as your golden rule

Supper is ready. 'Are you hungry darling? I've still got a schoolgirl's appetite.'