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To study this is to study what cannot be learnt. To practise this is to practise what cannot be accomplished. To discuss this is to discuss what can never be proved. Let knowledge stop at the unknowable. That is perfection.
Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 23, §7 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Chuang Tzu, wisdom is learned neither by theory nor by practice, but by an intuition of the heart; being wise also means knowing how to stop where one can understand no further. Today, faced with a question that troubles you and has no answer, accept not knowing and rest in this trust.
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