Riches

In the tao, space is mostly clear and empty.
In the tao, earth is mostly solid.
In all is both space and solid, neutrinos go wherever.

In the valley, water flows through the low places, and life abides
In the tao, life forms.

As thinkers, we try to discover the rules, but they form around the tao, not the other way around.

The heavens roil, as does the earth,
If any of it were pure it would strive to mix,
As life needs variety to fill the valley with messy abundance,
All moving among everything else.

All science needs to be sensitive and questioning, to keep up with the simple complexity of tao.

If you are sure, stop and question.
If you desire perfection, begin to appreciate the cracks.
The wise call themselves silly, desolate, unworthy.

Those who are most certain are most to be doubted. The most charming the most to be suspected.
An airtight argument is most likely to be rotten.

Nothing special about the glimmer of diamonds and emeralds,
Look more at the dull stones for your foundation.


This one was a bugger, a very loose interpretation.

Embarras de Richesse (om bar ra' de rē shes') (Fr.). A perplexing amount of wealth, or too great an abundance of anything; more matter than can conveniently be employed. The phrase was used as the title of a play by the Abbḗ de Allainval (1753).

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1963. p. 327-8.