ava on Nostr: My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice, Yet no one ...

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice,
Yet no one in the world can understand them or put them into practice.

Words have an ancestor and affairs have a sovereign.

It is because people are ignorant that they fail to understand me.
Those who understand me are few;
Those who harm me are honoured.

Therefore the sage, while clad in homespun, conceals on his person a priceless piece of jade.

— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 70 (D.C. Lau translation)

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