Pink Floyd – High Hopes

As Above, So Below?

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

(William Blake)

The Primordial Chaos

Out of a dark chaos

came something unknowable and unchanging;

Something silent and formless and vast,

alone and mysterious.

Because this mystery cannot be known or named,

it is called the Tao.

Words describe it as great

because it seems to go on and on,

Endlessly and forever turning with itself.

To know the world, return to the Tao.

It is the source of deepest wisdom

There are four great powers to consider:

The Tao,

The way of nature,

The workings of the world,

The affairs of people.

People conduct themselves according to the world.

The world conducts itself according to nature.

Nature conducts itself according to the Tao.

The Tao conducts itself according to itself.

(Ray Grigg)

References:

Auguries of Innocence; Willam Blake

The New Lao Tzu, Ray Grigg, 1995, Charles E Tuttle Co., Inc.

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