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My words are very easy to know, and very easy to practise; but there is no one in the world who is able to know and able to practise them. There is an originating and all-comprehending (principle) in my words, and an authoritative law for the things (which I enforce). It is because they do not know these, that men do not know me. They who know me are few, and I am on that account (the more) to be prized. It is thus that the sage wears (a poor garb of) hair cloth, while he carries his (signet of) jade in his bosom.
Source Tao Te King, chapter 70 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Lao Tzu, his teaching is simple to understand and to live, and yet few practise it; like the sage dressed in coarse clothes who carries a hidden jewel close to his heart, true worth has no need to show itself. Today, choose one very simple piece of advice (speak gently, desire little, give way without resentment) and live it from morning to evening, without telling anyone.
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