True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.
. . .
Translation of the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell
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She finds deep in her own experience the central truths of the art of living, which are paradoxical only on the surface: that the more truly solitary we are, the more compassionate we can be; the more we let go of what we love, the more present our love becomes; the clearer our insight into what is beyond good and evil, the more we can embody the good. Until finally she is able to say, in all humility, "I am the Tao, the Truth, the Life." S. Mitchell
Translation of the Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell, Harper & Row, 1988. In keeping with copyright law only the chapter under study is fulltext. All other chapters show only the first stanza.
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Layer upon layer
Everything can appear as its opposite. Sit quietly and turn it over to see the other side. Like a coin in the hand, see the heads and the tails. This is the paradox of truth. If “it” cannot be defined to include a lesson in paradox, “it” never existed.
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