Lao Tzu ...with a quote from Goethe

Lao Tzu, lived 6th cent. B.C.

"When the healthy human nature works in its entirety, when the human feels herself as a great and beautiful, worthy and valuable whole within the world, when the feeling of harmonious pleasure affords her free delight --then, if the universe could perceive itself, it would shout with joy as if it had arrived at its ultimate goal and would acclaim the pinnacle of its achievement and striving. For to what purpose is the expenditure of suns and planets and moons, of stars and milky ways, of comets and nebulae, of worlds already created and worlds in the making, unless ultimately a happy human being enjoys it unselfconsciously?"

Goethe 1749-1832

This quote epitimizes the spirit of Tao as it can be experienced by a selfless human consciousness...a natural state of being where one feels at One with the universe without a dint of selfishness...but when Love prevades all being and things....a great unity...js.