Recovering the Lost Heart

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Mencius said, “Benevolence is the human heart; righteousness is the human path. To abandon that path and refuse to follow it, and to lose one’s heart without knowing to seek it—how lamentable! When people lose a chicken or dog, they know to look for it; when they lose their heart, they do not. The way of learning is no more than seeking the heart one has lost.”

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