What Comes and What Goes

In the wake of the end of this year’s Days of Awe marking the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement, I provide a useful perspective from a venerable Chinese sage to bring into the New Year.

What Comes and What Goes

Mysteriously, wonderfully, I bid farewell to what goes.

I greet what comes; for what comes cannot be denied.

And what goes cannot be detained.

--Chuang Tzu