Forty-Seven – Clearly, I am not the Sage
The farther you go, the less you know.
Thus the sage knows without traveling;
He sees without looking;
He works without doing.
It takes an act of the will to get back to this project. If I float along thinking, “I’ll get back to it soon. Maybe tomorrow.” It’s just not going to happen. And all the while I feel less and less centered. At first I think to myself, “You’re feeling this way because you haven’t been meditating and writing.” But soon this voice fades and the feeling of disquiet becomes pervasive. Only now it’s vague and I don’t know why I feel this way. The sage works without doing, but I do not.
I’ll try to pick up the thread again. Making time for this is just worth it. Without a doubt. But I am not the sage, and I will have to work at it.