Thursday, April 23, 2026

Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu (6th-5th Century BCE Chinese philosopher and theologian)

“Exhibit the unadorned and embrace the uncarved block,
Have little thought of self an as few desires as
possible.”

  • From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Book One, XIX), translated by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963).

 

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