Though a mere abstraction, he can minister to their wants.

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He can sink to the lowest depths of materialism. To the highest heights of spirituality he can soar. This because he stands in due relation to all things. Though a mere abstraction, he can minister to their wants, and ever and anon receive them into rest,—the great, the small, the long, the short, for ever without end.

Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 12, §3 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Chuang Tzu, the sage who has risen to the Principle, empty of all self-interest, can give each one what suits them, and his beneficial action reaches far in space and time. Today, before helping someone, ask yourself what they truly need, rather than what you would like to give them.

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