Philosophy

道 德 經
Tao Teh Ching

Tao – Chapter 21

The character of great virtue follows alone from the Way.
As for the nature of the Way – it's shapeless and formless.
Formless! Shapeless! Inside there are images.
Shapeless! Formless! Inside there are things.
Hidden! Obscure! Inside there are essences.
These essences are very real;
Inside them is the proof.

From the present back to the past,
Its name has never gone away.
It is by this that we comply with the father of the multitude of things.
How do I know that the father of the multitude is so?
By this.