My brain was damned near on hold. And one acquaintance gave me a copy of a spiritual book I'd never heard of: The Penguin Classic edition of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu.
The original was credited to an older contemporary of Confucius from about 2,400 years ago. The writing may actually be “only” 1,600 years old. The translation I got had been first published in 1963. Which seemed ancient to me in 1974.
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