Laozi: Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78
“There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it.”
Reflection
Yielding is not surrender. In a strained relationship, consider what persistence without force would look like this week.
Source record
- Author
- Laozi
- Original source
- Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78
- Original date
- c. 4th century BC
- Edition used
- Trans. James Legge, 1891 — public domain
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