Retreat

Discovered in the opening pages of Wendy Palmer’s The Practice of Freedom, Aikido Principles as a Spiritual Guide, originally from Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching:

Truly, once the Way is lost,
There comes then virtue;
Virtue lost, comes then compassion;
After that morality;
And whe that’s lost, there’s etiquette,
The husk of all good faith,
The rising point of anarchy.

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