| "To remain whole, yield somewhat or seem curved and bent if you may." To become straight, let yourself look bent. To become full, seem hollow. Seem tattered now, that you can be renewed. Those that have little, can get more, To have plenty is to be confused.. Therefore the wise man clasps the primal unity, testing by it everything under heaven by himself - it. He doesn't show himself much, he is therefore luminous and clear. He doesn't define himself, therefore he is distinct. He doesn't boast, therefore people give him credit: he succeeds by that. He's never outright proud of his work, and therefore it endures. Because he doesn't contend, none in the world can contend with him. So the old saying To remain whole, seem twisted!" was no idle word; for true wholeness can only be won by return to dao. |
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