. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.
LaoziDo not make them (people) weary at their work. If you do not make them weary, they will not be weary of you.
LaoziIt is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.
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