What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby.
ConfuciusThe Master said, โWhat a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and waterโother people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Huiโs joy. What a worthy man was Hui!โ (Analects 6.11)
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