~23rd Verse~
To talk little is natural:
Fierce winds do not blow all morning; a downpour of rain does not last the day.
Who does this? Sky and earth.
But these are exaggerated, forced effects, and that is why they cannot be sustained.
If sky and earth cannot sustain a forced action, how much less is man able to do?
Those who follow the Way
become the Way.
Those who follow goodness
become one with goodness.
Those who stray from the Way and goodness
become one with failure.
If you conform to the Way,
its power flows through you.
our actions become those of nature,
your ways those of all the sky.
Open yourself to the Tao
and trust your natural responses...
then everything will fall into place.
In all of nature, no storm can last forever.
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