Martha Beck

He had all these corporations, not unlike what you guys have done to get families back together at the border.

And he said, it was so weird.

It was like I barely slept.

Was I breaking the rules?

And I said, no.

Because when you stop doing things by pushing,

I was a Chinese major as an undergraduate, and there's this Chinese saying that when nothing is done, nothing remains undone.

And it sounds so weird.

But what it means is that when you stop doing things by the struggle of your individual will and you relax into nature, the power of nature itself has intentions too.

And it has a design for you.

And it will pick you up like a river.

And it will take every skill you've learned, every bit of talent you inherited, your position in life, and it will throw you at the problem.

And it will get the kids up.

And it will do all these things.

And then there's this weird sensation.

I'm not actually having to do this.

It's happening now.

through me and it's a very weird idea for americans i remember coming back from asia when i was like 20 because i went there and studied for a year and i was i came back and i was like why is everybody so tense in the west like what and then i realized they think they have to do everything where in asia there's this bedrock philosophy that relaxing into freedom

Allows you to be useful to the force.

And there's no God imagery like there is in Christianity.