Tao te Ching

Relativity
We know there is beauty because there is ugly
We know good because there is evil
Being and not being
Having and not having
Create each other
Difficulty and easy
Long and short
High and low
Define each other
Just as before and after follow each other
The dialectic of sound
Gives voice to music
Always transforming"is" from "was"
As the ancestors of "to be"
The wise teach without telling
Allow without commanding
Have without possessing
Care without claiming
In this way we harvest eternal importance
Because we never announce it.

Verse 2
Translator; Ralph Alan Dale

Another Version from Wayne Dyer
Living the Wisdom of the Tao..

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty,
Only because there is ugliness.
All can know good only because there is evil.

Being and nonbeing produce each other,
The difficult is born in the easy,
Long is defined by short, the high by the low.
Before and after go along with each other.

So the sage lives openly and with apparent duality
And paradoxical unity.
The sage can act without effort
And teach without words.
Nurturing things without possessing them,
He works, but not for the rewards;
He competes, but not for the results.

When the work is done, it is forgotten.
That is why it lasts forever.

Photo; Thor Galaxy