Tao Te Ching

“Our capacity to avert our awareness from the moral and metaphysical contradictions of our own nature—moral autohypnosis, the sleep of conscience, the sorrowful capacity of fallen man to hide from our profound betrayal of the good—is a fact that cannot be seen and studied without a serious commitment to truth”

— Jacob Needleman 1934 CE –
American religious scholar, historian, philosopher, and author
from American Soul