Analyzing Individuality

Recently in my World Literacy Class we have been analyzing The Tao Te Ching by: Lao Tzu. In this blog entry I have decided to analyze number 70. Individuality.

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70. Individuality

My words are easy to understand
And my actions are easy to perform
Yet no other can understand or perform them.

My words have meaning; my actions have reason;
Yet these cannot be known and I cannot be known.

We are each unique, and therefore valuable;
Though the sage wears coarse clothes, his heart is jade.

I believe the first section of this piece just says that everyone is different and unique. Which if everyone is unique and different that is what makes balance in the world because not everyone can think or do the same things or there would not be enough of that in the world. For example if everyone in the world was meant to be teachers there would not be people of the other jobs the world needs like hairdressers, or priests, or anyone to work at the local department store.  

       

 The next section I believe means that people do things that they cannot always explain. Sometimes people just feel like they have to go a certain way in life, and that is what they do. The last section means that if everyone was the same not everyone on the earth would be needed because we would have other people to perform those tasks on this earth. But since everyone is unique everyone does their special job on this earth.