Lao-Tzu and the Te-Tao Ching

I am up late tonight looking for a wedding photo I wanted to use for a project.

I couldn't find the cd with our wedding photos, but instead I came across an old copy of Lao-Tzu's Te-Tao Ching. I'm not sure how this came about, but I vaguely remember hearing it suggested that this was a book you could open to a random page and you would find a passage that was appropriate for your circumstances.

So that's what I did, and here's what I found:

From Lao-Tzu's Te-Tao Ching, Chapter 29
For those who would like to take control of the world and act on it--
I see that with this they simply will not succeed.
The world is a sacred vessel;
It is not something that can be acted upon.
Those who act on it destroy it;
Those who hold on to it lose it.

With things--some go forward, others follow;
Some are hot, others submissive and weak;
Some rise up while others fall down.
Therefore the Sage:
Rejects the extreme, the excessive, and the extravagant.

And I was just about to write an extravagant post about the screenplay I want to write.

Patience...