Tao Te Ching Chapter 80-10 Enjoy your customs

Today's Tao

Make them enjoy their customs. (Ch.80)


The grass is always greener on the other side.

The fancy costumes are fancier in someone else's religion.

The mantras seem more precious if you don't understand what you are saying.

Are you sure you would read «Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching» if the title were «an old man's prayer of morals»?

There is nothing wrong with being a bit exotic.

These days Japanese princesses get married in a white wedding dress at a Christian church in Tokyo even though they have no idea who the heck St. Mary Magdalene is.

Their eyes can be greener when they wear colored contact lenses, but there is no guarantee that they can see things more clearly.


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