Source of Knowledge
Source of Knowledge
For the one who aspires to Be more, it is necessary to reflect upon nature.
Observing it carefully, without preconceptions.
Contemplating it.
Knowing that the inner nature and outer nature join together.
Trusting in this synthesis, at the point of this encounter, in this final integration.
Even without knowing exactly when it will happen, neither where, nor even why it is so.
But that it is reasonable for it to happen this way.
It is not science, in the modern sense.
It is science, in the old sense.
It is another kind of knowledge.
For all knowledge is only complete when it results in self-knowledge.
Under heaven
Nothing is more gentle and yielding than water.
Yet for attacking the solid and strong,
nothing is better;
It has no equal.
The weak can overcome the strong;
The supple can overcome the stiff.
Under heaven everyone knows this,
Yet no one puts it into practice.
Therefore the sage says:
“He who takes upon himself the people’s sufferings is fit to rule them.
He who takes upon himself the country’s disasters deserves to be king of the universe.
The truth often sounds paradoxical.”
Lao Tsé, Tao Te King (chapter 78)
