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Lao Tzu says, “Whoever knows its brightness, cloaks himself in its darkness.” We add to this the truth that everyone knows, but few realize: Mortal thinking must let itself down into the dark depths of the well if it is to see the stars by day. It remains more difficult to guard the limpidity of the dark than to procure a brightness that only wants to shine as such. What wants only to shine, does not illuminate.