Lao Tan said, “I was letting my mind wander in the beginning of things.”
“What does this mean?” asked Confucius. Lao Tan said, “It means to attain Perfect Beauty and wander in Perfect Happiness. He who attains Perfect Beauty and wanders in Perfect Happiness may be called the Perfect Man.”
There’s nothing more advanced than relating with others. There’s nothing more advanced than communication – compassionate communication.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
