All to often people believe that if a person has a humble job, or thinks a certain way that appears to be on the surface as simple and ignorant, then the person is not as great as someone who has attained power, influence, and money. The sage looks beyond all outer appearances that are of great value to others to the heart of the Tao. The sage sees the Tao everywhere and absent nowhere. No single person or created being possesses the totality of the Tao or has a monopoly on the universe. All people are equal in the eyes of the sage because the sage has become ignorant of false distinctions.
True wisdom is the clarity of equality.
The sage can see into both the multiplicity and unity of the Tao. Embracing the flight of the butterfly, the speed of a jaguar, the stillness of ice, and the suffering of a human being, the sage accepts the All of Nature. Becoming nothing, the sage is everything. Knowing nothing, the sage is propelled into wisdom. Cultivating simplicity, attaining Oneness, losing separateness- the sage takes part in the infinity of existence.