Tao Te Ching

“Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death… Thou art thyself the Tao. Be thou, now, a rock against which the waves of life rush in vain.”

— James Clavell 1921 – 1994 CE
Fictionalizing and fictional historian
from Shōgun, 1975