Tao Te Ching Part Twenty

“Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles. 

Is there a difference between yes and no?
Is there a difference between good and evil?
Must I fear what others fear? What nonsense!
Other people are contented, enjoying the sacrificial feast of the ox.
In spring some go to the park, and climb the terrace,
But I alone am drifting, not knowing where I am.
Like a newborn babe before it learns to smile,
I am alone, without a place to go. 

Others have more than they need, but I alone have nothing.
I am a fool. Oh, yes! I am confused.
Others are clear and bright,
But I alone am dim and weak.
Others are sharp and clever,
But I alone am dull and stupid.
Oh, I drift like the waves of the sea,
Without direction, like the restless wind. 

Everyone else is busy,
But I alone am aimless and depressed.
I am different.
I am nourished by the great mother.”

For those that see life differently, at many points it can lead to a sense of loneliness and despair, why can’t others see what they can?

When others can’t see how the universe has a balance, how something can only exist because of its opposite, they are distracted towards what they desire to seek contentment but oblivious to its opposite always lurking in the shadows. 

To be the objective viewer watching these people vacillating from good to bad, from fear to contentment and from one to the other in a continuous loop it can create a feeling of isolation from the rest of humanity until they ‘let go’ and allow themselves to yield ‘like a newborn babe’ and be nourished by the simplicity of the infinite, immortal, wordless and universal consciousness that permeates everything and is from where we rise from and return to.