Thought of the day from Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu: “To understand others is to have knowledge; to understand oneself is to be illumined.”

The line turns on a single word, and the word is doing more work than it first appears. To understand others is knowledge, something gathered and held. To understand oneself is something else, a state the original Chinese marks with the character ming (明). As Sandra Hill writes for Monkey Press, the character “can be [...] The post Thought of the day from Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu: “To understand others is to have knowledge; to understand oneself is to be illumined.” appeared first on Space Dai