The Tuesday Poem: An Excerpt From the Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu

XLVII

Without stirring abroad
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out the window
One can see the way of heaven.
The further one goes
The less one knows.
Therefore the sage knows without having to stir,
Identifies without having to see,
Accomplishes without having to act.

from the 1963 Penguin Classic edition of the Tao Te Ching;
translation D.C. Lau

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