When the world takes its beginning Reason becomes the world's mother.
As one knows his mother, so she in turn knows her child;
As she quickens her child, so he in turns keeps to his mother,
And to the end of life he is not in danger.
Who closes his mouth, and shuts his sense--gates, in the end of life
He will encounter no trouble;
But who opens his mouth and meddles with affairs, in the end of life
He cannot be saved.
Who beholds his smallness is call enlightened.
Who preserves his tenderness is called strong.
Who uses Reason's light and returns home to its enlightenment does not surrender his person to
perdition.
This is called practicing the eternal.
LAO TSU.
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