Know the dark.
Know the bright.
Be patient.
Realize there are many things.
Greater than great.
Depart from great.
Be surprised by greater.
As you become surprised,
reach for understanding.
Better is to accept:
"I am so well.
I must keep this way. "
other readings further drafts from the same generation
deeper strata where the meaning thins
the original
1. To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest
(attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know is a disease.
2. It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this
disease that we are preserved from it. The sage has not the disease.
He knows the pain that would be inseparable from it, and therefore he
does not have it.