““To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be hollow is to be filled. To be tattered is to be renewed. To be in want is to possess. To have plenty is to be confused,” Lao Tzu wrote.””
Paradoxes illustrate that preservation, flexibility, emptiness, and scarcity each contain the seed of their opposite, urging a balanced embrace of contradictions.
In simple terms: Opposites contain each other’s seeds.
Embrace paradox to find equilibrium.
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