Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.We should do what is right -- according to the circumstances and situation -- not because we hope to be recognized or rewarded, but because the right thing more easily flows with nature. Why create hurdles and roadblocks where none need be?
~ King James version ~
The Perfect Man of ancient times used benevolence as a path to be borrowed, righteousness as a lodge to take shelter in. He wandered in the free and easy wastes, ate in the plain and simple fields, and strolled in the garden of no bestowal. Free and easy, he rested in inaction; plain and simple, it was not hard for him to live; bestowing nothing, he did not have to hand things out. The men of old called this the wandering of the Truth-picker.
~ from Chapter 14 of the Zhuangzi ~
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