The Way and Its Power Quotes

“All men have enough and to spare;
I alone seem to have lost everything.
Mine is indeed the mind of a very idiot,
So dull am I.
The world is full of people that shine;
I alone am dark.
They look lively and self-assured;
I alone, depressed.
I seem unsettled as the ocean;
Blown adrift, never brought to a stop.
All men can be put to some use;
I alone am intractable and boorish.
But wherein I most am different from other men
Is that I prize no sustenance that comes not from the Mother's breast.”
― Lao Tzu, The Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Tê Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought