Which being the case, the true sage rejects all distinctions of this and that.

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Which being the case, the true sage rejects all distinctions of this and that. He takes his refuge in God, and places himself in subjective relation with all things. And inasmuch as the subjective is also objective, and the objective also subjective, and as the contraries under each are indistinguishably blended, does it not become impossible for us to say whether subjective and objective really exist at all?

Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 2, §5 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Chuang Tzu, the sage looks at things with the light of reason: he first sees that all is one, then notices the oppositions, and concludes that unity is more real than diversity. Today, as you walk, look at each thing without separating it from what surrounds it, and feel the unity beneath the differences you meet.

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