To find the way, you must search for it
but you cannot search for it without losing it first
and how can you lose the way if you have never found it?

The way is what is
we are born to it without knowing
when we know is when we go astray
and there is no turning backwards
whichever direction you face is always forward,
and every beginning is an ending
though the way has neither beginning nor end.

Isn’t the branch still part of the tree?
but can you say it is a tree if it has no branches?
the head is only one part of the body,
but can the body live without the head,
or the head without the body?
and the wheel is but a part of the chariot,
and yet without the wheel, the chariot cannot go forward
and yet the wheel alone is a poor conveyance
So each small way is still part of the great way
for the way could not be great
if the small ways did not exist