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The Creative Tao

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I've read about ten versions of the Tao te Ching recently, but none as beautiful, encouraging and uplifting as this one. Anyone who has struggled with creating will benefit from this enlightened version of one of the world's oldest collections of philosophical verses. Here's a taste from Verse One entitled, "Before the Beginning: Getting Started".

To create is to struggle with the empty spaces
of the canvas,
the blank page,
or the void of the empty stage.

To live is to do the same.

Before the shapes take form, there is the nothingness.
There must be nothingness before the beginning.

Before the beginning is prologue:
all that has come before.