I remember very distinctly how I discovered taoism, and in a very taoist way, I realized that I had already known and loved it for years before I "discovered" it. At the time, I was deeply immersed in my own sorrow surrounding a breakup, when at a friend's house I picked up his taoteching and randomly opened it to verse 47. As I read, I knew what words were coming next. Not necessarily because of the deeply intuitive nature of what the words were conveying, but because I had literally heard those words before.

Without going out his door
he knows the whole world
without looking out his window
he knows the Way of Heaven
the farther people go the less people know
therefore the sage knows without moving
names without seeing
succeeds without trying

Those who seek learning gain every day
those who seek the Way lose every day
they lose and they lose until they find nothing to do nothing to do means nothing not done
who rules the world isn't busy
if someone is busy he can't rule the world
taoteching, verse 47
(tr. red pine)

Those words were written 2,500 years ago, and the meaning is even older.

Now let's look at the lyrics to a song written by a young man from Liverpool in 1967.

Without going out of my door
I can know all things on earth
With out looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven

The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows

Without going out of your door
You can know all things of earth
With out looking out of your window
You could know the ways of heaven

The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows

Arrive without traveling
See all without looking
Do all without doing

The Inner Light
The Beatles (George Harrison)

Consciousness is constant and stable as well as fluid and changing. Similarly, my understanding of this poem/song. I choose not to interpret it line for line, but the meaning seems pretty clear. To find the truth you need not travel far from yourself and your own experience with the truth. You don't need your eyes to see what is right, and you don't need to busy yourself to get things accomplished. Let every situation be every situation. Let each event be each event.

The second part of the poem is not in the song, but is certainly worth looking at. With regard to "losing", consider this quote by Ludwig Borne "Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."