choices

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Choices

Colors can make us blind!
Music can make us deaf!
Flavors can destroy our taste!
Possessions can close our options!
Racing can drive us mad
and its rewards obstruct our peace!

Thus, the wise
fill the inner gut
rather than the eyes,
always sacrificing the superficial
for the essential.


From Verse 12: Choices of "Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu (Old Master)
written around the 6th century BC

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