What one looks for outside turns out to be present inside, but only to be discovered after a long detour of seeking externally, in all the wrong places...in a process of gradual reversal, the return of what moves forward in the shape of a circle, in which the end meets the initial point of departure.
Zhang Longxi
Source: Qian Zhongshu on Philosophical and Mystical Paradoxes in the Laozi
Contributed by: bajarbattu
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