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Confucius – transformation

Soul Quote / Zou, Lu state, Ancient China / 551 BC – 479 BC / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph - Swiss countryside, Switzerland / LoadingBookmark / Print /
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Whoever knows essentially his own nature,
can know also that of other men and can penetrate into the nature of beings. 

He can collaborate in the transformation and the progress of heaven and earth.

– Confucius

 

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