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The perfect Sage, in his relations with the external world, injures nothing. Neither does anything injure him. And only he who is thus exempt can be trusted to conform and to adapt.
Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 22, §13 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Chuang Tzu, the ancient sages took the Unity as their model, the motionless Principle above all changes: calm and impartial, they hurt no one, and no one wished them harm. Today, keep this sentence in mind when you meet others, and choose the gentle word rather than the one that wounds.
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