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Ursula K. Le Guin

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To know without knowing is best. Not knowing without knowing it is sick.

To be sick of sickness is the only cure.

The wise aren’t sick. They’re sick of sickness, so they’re well.

Note UKLG: What you know without knowing you know it is the right kind of knowledge. Any other kind (conviction, theory, dogmatic belief, opinion) isn’t the right kind, and if you don’t know that, you’ll lose the Way. This chapter is an example of exactly what Lao Tzu was talking about in the last one — obscure clarity, well-concealed jade.

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