Themes
If you realise that you have enough, you are truly rich. If you stay in the centre and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.
— Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The passage connects recognising enough with being truly rich, shifting wealth toward contentment. It then joins remaining centred and accepting death with endurance. These paired statements read as challenges to ordinary measures of possession and survival, suggesting that holding less tightly can have a value of its own.
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