Words to remember during this stressful holiday season, to maintain your balance:

Tao Te Ching -Chapter 29

Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?  I do not think it can be done.

The universe is sacred.  You cannot improve it.  If you try to change it, you will ruin it.

If your try to hold it you will lose it.

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind.

Sometimes breathing is hard and sometimes it comes easily;

Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;

Sometimes one is up and sometimes down.

Therefore the wise man avoids extremes, excesses, but also complacency.

                 - written by Lao Tsu in 600 BC.