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"How much difference is there between yes and no? How much distance is there between good and bad? What others fear, I must fear. Wildly, endlessly, all men are merry, as though feasting upon beef or sitting on the verandah in the spring sunshine. I alone remain uncommitted, Like an infant who has not yet smiled. I alone seem as mindless as one who has no home to return to. Everyone else has enough and more, Yet I alone seem to be left with nothing. What a fool's mind I have! How muddled I am! Most people seek brightness and clarity. I alone seek dullness and darkness. Most people are imaginative and observant. I alone am stifled and confused. I am as unmoved as the ocean, As ceaseless as the wind high in the sky. Everyone else has something to do; I alone am ignorant and dull. I alone am different from the rest in that I value taking sustenance from the Mother."
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Lao TzuBook
Tao Te Ching
Version: 11