The easier a matter is reckoned the more difficult it proves at the last for this reason the Sage sees difficulties in everything, And therefore he encounters no difficulties.
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In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
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... These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.
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