Tao Te Ching

“When feeling returns to essence, punishment turns into merit. Reverting to the original, going back to the fundamental, there is a return to correctness.”

— Liu Yiming 刘一明 1734 – 1821 CE via Thomas Cleary, Shan Dao, #54 Making a Young Girl Marry
(Liu I-ming)
from Taoist I Ching, , Zhouyi chanzhen 周易闡真