The difficulty with a late start is rarely the work itself. Chapter 40 is three lines long and it addresses the other part — the sense that going back to a beginning is going backwards.
Beginnings Read → August 2026The most-quoted line in the Tao Te Ching arrives inside a chapter that is mostly about something else — including the half nobody repeats.
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