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#ThisAmericanQuilt Is Threaded from the #InsideOut / Chinese & Christian #wisdom #coexist #servantleadership #positivedisruption

"A leader, "said Lao Tzu in his book, known as 'The Book of the Way' or 'Tao Te Ching,' leads without trying to control, has without possessing and steps back from their mind after taking action and lets things unfold. He said this about two thousand five hundred years ago. Jesus said, "It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord." Matthew 10:25 He said this about two thousand years ago. Lao Tzu, in his second and only other book authored by him, the 'Hua Hu Ching,' said in his fifty-first lesson that reverence for all life, natural sincerity, gentleness and supportiveness (as in "service to others without expectation of reward") were the four cardinal virtues that led one to truth. Jesus said himself that he is the truth, the way and the life. Does one man contradict the other? Does the matter have to be pushed all the way outside what we hold as truth in our hearts? Or c...