Calm ocean at sunrise

Tao Te Ching, chapter 16 · Legge, 1891

Return to the root is called stillness

When things have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root.

This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness.

That stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end.

To know that unchanging rule is to be intelligent.

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