The Tao

"Life is flowing all the time. That's the Tao, the flow of life. You are going along with it whether you want to or not. You're like people in a stream. You can swim against the stream, but you'll still be moved along by it. And all you'll do is wear yourself out in futility. But, if you swim with the stream, the whole strength of the stream is yours."

-- Alan Watts

Ouroboros

"And this slow spider, which crawls in the moonlight, and this moonlight
itself, and I and you in the gateway, whispering together, whispering of
eternal things – must not all of us have been there before? And return
and walk in that outer lane, out there, before us, in this long dreadful
lane – must we not eternally return?"

---Friedrich Nietzsche