Lao-Tzu #71: Knowing you don’t know is wholeness. Thinking you know is a disease. Only by recognizing that you have an illness can you move to seek a cure.

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Knowing you don’t know is wholeness.

Thinking you know is a disease.

Only by recognizing that you have an illness

can you move to seek a cure.

 

The Master is whole because

she sees her illnesses and treats them,

and thus is able to remain whole.

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Tao Te Ching

By Lao-Tzu

A translation for the public domain by j.h.mcdonald, 1996

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