{"id":349,"date":"2005-04-20T13:01:37","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T13:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=349"},"modified":"2005-04-20T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T13:01:37","slug":"and-the-straight-shall-be-made-twisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2005\/04\/20\/and-the-straight-shall-be-made-twisted\/","title":{"rendered":"And the straight shall be made twisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you want to become whole,<br \/>\nfirst let yourself become broken.<br \/>\nIf you want to become straight,<br \/>\nfirst let yourself become twisted.<br \/>\nIf you want to become full,<br \/>\nfirst let yourself become empty.<br \/>\nIf you want to become new,<br \/>\nfirst let yourself become old.<br \/>\nThose whose desires are few gets them,<br \/>\nthose whose desires are great go astray.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason the Master embraces the Tao,<br \/>\nas an example for the world to follow.<br \/>\nBecause she isn&#8217;t self centered,<br \/>\npeople can see the light in her.<br \/>\nBecause she does not boast of herself,<br \/>\nshe becomes a shining example.<br \/>\nBecause she does not glorify herself,<br \/>\nshe becomes a person of merit.<br \/>\nBecause she wants nothing from the world,<br \/>\nthe world cannot overcome her.<\/p>\n<p>When the ancient Masters said,<br \/>\n&#8220;If you want to become whole,<br \/>\nthen first let yourself be broken,&#8221;<br \/>\nthey weren&#8217;t using empty words.<br \/>\nAll who do this will be made complete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Lao Tzu, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wam.umd.edu\/~stwright\/rel\/tao\/TaoTeChing.html\">J.M. MacDonald&#8217;s public domain translation of the Tao Te Ching<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to become whole, first let yourself become broken. If you want to become straight, first let yourself become twisted. If you want to become full, first let yourself become empty. If you want to become new, first let yourself become old. Those whose desires are few gets them, those whose desires are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-5D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}