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HabitAttested · Confucius

Honoring what you inherit

To know yourself a link: receiving from those before, passing on to those who follow.

For Confucius, and the remembrance of ancestors are the root of the virtues: knowing oneself a link between those who came before and those who will follow. This twofold attention, receiving and transmitting, gives time a depth that neither the instant nor the project affords. Today it is a counterweight to a life measured by productivity alone.

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Source: Confucius