As the old saying goes, "Why look far away for what is close at hand?" You, like the young students of the ancients, may want to study Tao. Doing so may be as simple as bending down to pick up a clump of earth.
So many of us look and look for Tao. The masters, it seems, are still pointing one hand to the sky and the other to the earth.
— Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao