There is nothing better than to know that you don’t know.

Not knowing, yet thinking you know—

This is sickness.

Only when you are sick of being sick

Can you be cured.

The sage’s not being sick

Is because he is sick of sickness.

Therefore he is not sick.

—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

© Takuin Minamoto. Used with permission.

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