Thought for the week

Men are born soft and supple;
dead, they are stiff and hard,
Plants are born tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.

Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
Is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
Is a disciple of life

The hard and the stiff will be broken.
The soft and the supple will prevail.

- Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching ? translation by Stephan Mitchell