WATTS ON THE TAO

The Tao that can be named is not the Tao.  He who says he knows the Tao does not.  It cannot be said what the Tao is, only what it is like.  The Tao is like gravity.  

Wu wei in Taoism means non-interference, which is to say you should flow with your life, not get in the way of it. 

As Alan Watts put it, “You are going along with the Tao whether you want to or not.  You can swim against it but you’ll still be moved along by it.  If you swim against it, all you will do is wear yourself out.  But if you swim with it, the whole strength of it is yours.  Yet the difficulty is determining which way it is going.”