You cannot talk to a power politician
As if he were a wise man.
If he seeks to understand you,
If he looks inside himself
To find the truth you have told him,
He cannot find it there.
Not finding, he doubts.
When a man doubts,
He will kill.
— Chuang Tzu (c. 3 BCE) as rendered by Thomas Merton
[The Way of Chuang Tzu, New Directions, © 1965]
No comments:
Post a Comment