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The Tao...

Heaven and Earth don't play favourites
They treat everything with equal detachment.
Sages don't play favourites
They treat good people and bad with equal detachment.

Heaven and earth are like a set of bellows.
Although empty, they are endlessly productive.
The more you work them, the more they produce.
The mouth, on the other hand, becomes exhausted if you talk too much.
Better to keep your thoughts inside you.

1 comment:

Sophia said...

Maybe this is why some of the sages take a vow of silence.

It would seem to make life very lonely, though, to keep one's thoughts inside oneself. How could advancements flourish, how could mankind evolve, without the sharing of thoughts?