Chapter 63. Looking ahead
To act without plan, to labor without pretense, finding great in what is small, and plentyfullness in scarcicity , by revenging evil with goodness, difficult things when they are easy, and by guiding great things when they are at their beginning – that is of the way of the Tao.
The beginnings of all difficult things are in ease and difficulty of great things is only in their beginning.
That is why a wise one can accomplish great things without even seemingly touching them.
Who lightly accepts, rarely keeps his word.
He who considers all things easy, he will have many troubles.
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That is why a wise one keeps meticulous count of small things and thus he has no difficulties.
Own translation from 1925 Finnish translation by Pekka Ervast (ISBN 951-8995-01-X) with kind permission of Ruusu-Ristin Kirjallisuusseura ry.