The World is

a Spirit Vessel

Words by Jeremy Lent

Illustration by Cláudia Salgueiro

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One who desires to take the world and act upon it,
I see that it cannot be done.
The world is a spirit vessel,
Which cannot be acted upon.
One who acts on it fails,
One who holds on to it loses.

- Tao Te Ching.

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