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if this is to end in fire... ([personal profile] damia) wrote in [personal profile] trickykitty 2011-08-17 07:14 pm (UTC)

My all time favorite mantras for life: In the joints there are spaces and the blade has no thickness.
bastardized from The Dexterous Butcher
http://www.bopsecrets.org/gateway/passages/chuang-tzu.htm


It's pretty easy to slam yourself into life. To let your ego get the better of you. Insist the world bend to your will.

It's far more effective to take a step back, shelve your preconceptions and then feel out the hard parts that won't move and the soft spots where you can slide right through.

For a real life example watch a cat sometime in a new environment. They walk cautiously, suspicious, poking their nose gently into everything. They'll sit and watch the environment for hours. Memorizing.
They mentally map out their world then when the mood strikes they can vault through it with ease.

Just watch out for those invisible walls. They hurt like a bitch when you smack into them at full tilt.

[edit] what the hell with the formatting issue?

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