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XLIII

THE FUNCTION OF THE UNIVERSAL

The most tender things of creation race over the hardest.

A non-material existence enters into the most impenetrable.

I therefore recognize an advantage in the doctrine of not doing (wu wei) and not speaking. p. 34 But there are few in the world who obtain the advantage of non-assertion (wu wei) and silence.


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