lao tzu wrote my favourite book, it's actually not the tao te ching but it's lesser known hau hu ching which i guess is the tao's handbook.
it's probably one of the greatest philosophical ideologies ever written yet hardly anyone knows of it.
it is the truth or at least as close as it comes in written form, it's beautiful and elegant as truth should be. it flows and grows in simplicity. it's surprisingly anti intellect, in fact anti mind.in chapter 48 comes a very brilliant truth...

do you wish to free yourself of mental and emotional knots and become one with the tao?
if so there are two paths available to you.

the first is the path of acceptance.
affirm everything and every one
freely extend your goodwill and virtue in every direction, regardless of circumstances.
embrace all things as part of the harmonious. oneness, and then you will begin to percieve it.

the second path is that of denial.
recognise that everything you see and think is an illusion, a veil over the truth.
peel the veils away, and arrive at oneness.

although the paths are entirely different they lead to the same place, spontanious awareness of the great oneness.
once you arrive there it is not nessessery to struggle to maintain unity with it.

all you have to do is participate in it.