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Of all the translations of the Tao Te Ching you will come across, this one is surely the best. You can finally understand the context and meaning of Lao Tzu's wisdom.
Sieving's insightful explanations, asides and "interpolations" bring the work back to life after a century of dusty and opaque translations. You can hear and feel the presence of the old master again in every chapter and on every page.
Profound Accordance is highly recommended for all cultural time travelers who seek the wisdom of the ancient masters.
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See the world anew through ancient eyes
The Way of Ages Cover Quotes and where they came from
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
- Rabbi Yehoshua, Luke 6:46
My words are easy to understand and easy to apply, yet no one under Heaven is able to understand them and no one is able to apply them.
- Lao Tzu, Profound Accordance, Chapter 70
Morals and ethics must not lag behind science.
- Arthur C. Clarke, The Challenge of the Spaceship (1953)
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years (1950)
So I hope you can accept Nature as She is – absurd.
- Richard Feynman,
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1988)
