Tao Te Ching coverChapter 56
Chapter 56

Part 2: Te Ching

The Virtue of the Mysterious

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One who knows does not talk. One who talks does not know. Therefore the sage keeps his mouth shut and his sense-gates closed.
He will blunt his own sharpness, His own tangles adjust; He will dim his own radiance, And be one with his dust. This is called profound identification.