Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu Book1 V20-21

Dao De Jing Book 1 verse 20 Germinate learning,

And there will no longer be worries.

Between yay and nay,

How much difference is there between good and evil?

How great is the distance,

What others fear,

One must also fear.

And wax without having reached the limit,

The multitude are joyous,

As if partaking of the chai lao offering,

Or going up to a terrace in spring.

I alone am inactive and reveal no signs.

Like a baby that has not yet learned to smile,

Listless as though with no home to go back to.

The multitude all have more than enough.

I alone seem to be in want.

My mind is that of a fall,

How blank?

Vulgar people are clear.

I alone am drowsy.

Vulgar people are alert.

I alone am muddled.

Calm like the sea,

Like a high wind that never ceases.

The multitude all have a purpose.

I alone am foolish and uncouth.

I alone am different from others and value being fed by the mother.

Verse 21 In his every moment a man of great virtue Follows the way and the way only.

As a thing the way is shadowy,

Indistinct,

Indistinct and shadowy.

Yet within it is an image,

Shadowy and indistinct.

Yet within it is a substance,

Dim and dark.

Yet within it is an essence.

This essence is quite genuine,

And within it is something that can be tested.

From the present back to antiquity.

Its name never deserted it.

It serves as a means for inspecting the fathers of the multitude.

How do I know that the fathers of the multitude are like that?

By means of this.