A Million Little Pieces has inspired me to look into Taoism. Perhaps I could use more calm neutrality in my life, and I'm already exercising some of the basics by nature such as to give without receiving. Taoists do not believe in salvation; salvation suggests the possibility of damnation, where as in Taoism one is simply seeking balance.The reality of good and evil is that all actions contain some aspect of each. This is represented in the t'ai chi, more commonly referred to as the yin-yang symbol. Any action would have some negative (yin) and some positive (yang) aspect to it. Taoists believe that nature is a continual balance between yin and yang, and that any attempt to go toward one extreme or the other will be ineffective, self-defeating, and short-lived. When people interfere with the natural balance by trying to impose their egoistic plans, they will not succeed; rather, the non-egoistic person allows nature to unfold, watching it ebb and flow from good to bad and back again.
-"What Taoists Believe"
Let It Be, Let It Be.
