An idea from Tao Te Ching

Picture everyone around you at a feast, bright and sure, while you feel dull and adrift, like a baby that has not yet smiled. That feeling doesn’t get fixed. What holds is valuing the Way the way a child values its nursing mother.

From Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

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