The pursuit of learning is to increase day after day. The pursuit of Tao is to decrease… — Lao Tzu
The pursuit of learning is to increase day after day. The pursuit of Tao is to decrease day after day. It is to decrease and further decrease until one reaches the point of taking no action. No action is undertaken, and yet nothing is left undone.
Tao Te Ching · 400 BC
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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. "The Natural Way of Lao Tzu." A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, translated by Wing-Tsit Chan. Princeton University Press, 1969, ch. 48.
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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. 道德經 [Tao Te Ching]. c. 400 BC, ch. 48.