The opening statement of the Confucian book “Da Xue” (“The Highest Learning”)

“Being stable, one is able to be still;

being still, one is able to be at peace;

being at peace, one is able to contemplate;

being able to contemplate, one is able to get it [the energy].”

The opening statement of the Confucian book “Da Xue” (“The Highest Learning”)