"To realize that you do not understand..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
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“The separate parts make no carriage.”
“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
“The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies; Remembering this, he keeps his attitude unstructured at all times and thus is always free to pursue the Integral Way. He studies the teachings of the masters. He dissolves all concepts of duality. He pours himself out in service to others.”
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“The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.”
“To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.”
“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”