TAO and Water

from Lao Tzu 5th Century B.C.

"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong."

"Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them."



from St. Francis of Assisi 1181/82-1226

"Water is the mirror of nature."


from Rudolf Steiner 1907

"The wisdom of Atlantis is embodied in water, in a drop of dew. Tau (German for 'dew' and phonetically Tao) is nothing other than that ancient Atlantean sound. So we should look with reverence and devotion at every dew drop glittering from a blade of grass as a holy legacy from that age in which the connection between man and the Gods was not yet severed."