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Resolve your mental energy into abstraction, your physical energy into inaction. Allow yourself to fall in with the natural order of phenomena, without admitting the element of self,—and the empire will be governed.
Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 7, §2 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Chuang Tzu, a sage answers someone who wants to govern the world: stay simple, seek nothing for yourself, and let each thing follow its natural course. Today, in a situation you would like to control, simply do your part, then let go of the outcome.
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