The Master said, "I would prefer not speaking." Tsze-kung said, "If you, Master, do not speak, what shall we, your disciples, have to record?" The Master said, "Does Heaven speak? The four seasons pursue their courses, and all things are continually being produced, but does Heaven say anything?"
子曰、予欲無言。子貢曰、子如不言、則小子何述焉。子曰、天何言哉、四時行焉、百物生焉、天何言哉。
Contemplate and reflect upon knowledge, and you will become a benefactor to others.
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Therefore, seeker after the highest truth, study the sacred lore, in order to cause yourself and others to attain perfection.
As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village.
And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the variations in your languages and your colours: verily in that are Signs for those who know.
ALL this, whatsoever moves on earth, is to be hidden in the Lord (the Self). When thou hast surrendered all this, then thou mayest enjoy. Do not covet the wealth of any man!
There is the great Mass (of nature);--I find the support of my body on it; my life is spent in toil on it; my old age seeks ease on it; at death I find rest in it;--what makes my life a good makes my death also a good. …