QOTD

Sep 03, 2010 08:33

For Dao begets but does not keep,
Works its way but does not bind:
Authority that does not rule.
Such is the meaning of "hidden power".

-- Laozi, Dao De Jing, trans. Moss Roberts

(Roberts: 'This is what sublime favor or power means: it goes unacknowledged; there is no way to reciprocate.')

taoism, lao tzu, qotd

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