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The Principle of the world has become the mother of the world. Once one possesses the mother, one knows her children. Once a man knows the children and keeps their mother, to the end of his life he is exposed to no danger. […]
Source Tao Te King, chapter 52 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Lao-tzu, the Principle from which all things come is like a mother to the world: whoever stays united with this mother recognizes in every being one of her children, and lives safely to the end of their days. Today, look at each person you meet as a child of this same mother, and treat them with the tenderness owed to a brother or a sister.
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