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Sun, Oct 9, 2022 07:08:19 AM
🤨 because 👍
posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2022 07:08:19 AM
it brings me relief. what a wonderful self-serving justification! that is, however, when i lift it from context and attempt to slap that phrase into all sorts of different scenarios. in its proper context, that phrase is stating the result of me, putting my spiritual life and its application in the real world in order, rather than causing the chaos that i was part of my life for the longest time.
∞ DT ∞
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☯ The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao ☯
by Lao-Tse
Translated by James Legge
Book 2
1) If I were suddenly to become known, and (put into a position to)
conduct (a government) according to the Great Tao, what I should be
most afraid of would be a boastful display.