Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), Tao te Ching
I can’t help it. I want to meddle with the world. Life swirls around me, loves, hopes, fears, dreams. I sit with only words as my defense. Only words to show that the whole is more than the sum of the parts: a rainbow’s beauty is more than the order of its colors. Come to me world, I am ready for you, take what you need, but leave me my muse, my soul.
"What is man's life for? What pleasure is there in it? Is it for beauty and riches? Is it for sound and colour? But there comes a time when beauty and riches no longer answer the needs of the heart, and when a surfeit of sound and colour becomes a weariness to the eyes and a ringing in the ears.
Yang Chu (4th century B.C.)
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