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A masterful One hearing of the Tao immediately begins to embody it. An average One hearing of the Tao half believes it and half doubts it. A foolish One hearing of the Tao laughs out loud, and yet should fools not laugh, it wouldn't be the Tao! Thus t'is writ: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest seem unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found, yet it nourishes and completes all things. - -- --- - - -
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Jan 8, 2016
Jan 8, 2016 at 1:56 AM UTC
Tao Te Ching - 41
A masterful One hearing of the Tao immediately begins to embody it. An average One hearing of the Tao half believes it and half doubts it. A foolish One hearing of the Tao laughs out loud, and yet should fools not laugh, it wouldn't be the Tao! Thus t'is writ: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest seem unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found, yet it nourishes and completes all things. - -- --- - - -
Reiterated slightly from Stephen Mitchell's iteration. Implications abound from ethics to psychology and onward to quantum physics, and every quanta betwixt and beyond!
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