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Therefore, those of old who apprehended Tao, first apprehended God. Tao came next, and then charity and duty to one's neighbour, and then the functions of public life, and then forms and names, and then employment according to capacity, and then distinctions of good and bad, and then discrimination between right and wrong, and then rewards and punishments.
Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 13, §6 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Chuang Tzu, the ancients did not lose themselves in details and disputes: for every question, they went back to the root, to the origin, to the Principle that contains all the answers. Today, when a problem confuses you, set the details aside for a moment, ask yourself what is essential, then start from there.
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