HabitAttested · Confucianism
Tending the near bond
Care for those near you is the root from which all wider kindness grows.
For , the moral life begins not in the abstract but in care for one's own: treating parents and kin well is the root from which all wider benevolence grows. This habit gives body to these through concrete, regular gestures toward those who depend on you. Today it helps you not neglect close bonds in the name of an abstract « everyone ».
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- Partiality · Partialism
Source: Confucianism