Yesterday we began a short series on 7 insights from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching on how to live life well. The second insight is this:
“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.”
This insight invites us to attend to what I call the “sequence and speed” of the goal we are trying to accomplish. And it will not help, as Lao Tzu observes, to “rush, grasp, or force.” If we think of an apple on a branch, there is always a sequence and speed to it becoming and being ripe.
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