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Analects 6:18

Confucius said: Knowing it is not as good as loving it. Loving it is not as good as delighting in it.


They who know [the truth] are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it. L


Better than one who knows what is right is one who is fond of what is right; and better than one who is fond of what is right is one who delights in what is right. G


Those who know it are not as those who love it; those who love it are not as those who find their joy in it. K


They who know it are not as those who love it, nor they who love it as those who rejoice in it [i.e. have the fruition of their love for it]. J

Commentary

People generally delight in some various aspects of tao, but not all of it.

Delighting in it is having an addiction for it and a maximal natural ease in it, putting your very self in it, engaging in divine joy, art, and self-expression, and thereby having no distance being too far and no job being too far when it comes to yi.