Doing Then Talking

"Venerable Teacher, I am now deeply aware that to know or to think about something is much different than actually aligning oneself with the reality of being and doing it.  To have a quick mind or tongue is not equal to real achievement.  A person may think he is a good rider, but once he takes up the horse's reigns, it takes time and practice in order to ride well.  To talk and think about the Universal Integral Way is merely talking and thinking, which do not go beyond the relative realm; to a universal being talking and thinking are irrelevant.  The Universal Way is not just a matter of speaking wisdom, but one of continual practice in order to reach universal realization.  If one hope to align oneself with it, one must practice it.  If one does not practice it, one will never reach it.  Although it takes years of practice to become one with the Universal Way, it takes but an instant to realize it.'
    "Kind prince, " said the master, "just relax your body and quiet your senses.  Forget that you are one among many.  Undo the mind and allow it to return to its virgin purity.  Loosen the spirits within you.  Thus all things return to their root, and because there is no separation between them and their source, their return goes unrecognized.  To know of the return is to depart from it.  Do not be curious about its name and do not be in awe of its forms.  Then the truth will present itself to you naturally of itself and you will join in oneness with deep and boundless reality.  This is what it means to be a Universal One."
-  Hua Hu Ching, Chapter 49, translated by Hua-Ching Ni.  A Taoist work from around 500 CE, questionably attributed to Lao Tzu.

I'm not so sure about being or becoming a "Universal One."  Just being alive is awesome enough, and curiosity seems fine by me.  I do agree that action often speaks louder and eloquently than bragging by blowhards.   

"A wise man speaks when he has something to say. A fool speaks when he has to say something."
-  Plato

Concordance to the Tao De Jing

The Good Life