I live in inadequacy and I realized my inadequacy, but you haven't. And so unaware of being inadequate your unable to transcend your inadequacies. Dao de Jing Chapter 71 says:
There is nothing better than to know that you don’t know.
Not knowing, yet thinking you know— This is sickness.
Only when you are sick of being sick Can you be cured.
The sage not being sick is because he is sick of sickness.
Therefore he is not sick.
"Knowing you know not, is strength -
A high attainment.
Not knowing, yet thinking you know, is sickness -
A dire defect.
Only with knowledge of this sickness as a sickness,
Can the defect be removed.
The Sage has no sickness - no defect.
Recognizing sickness as sickness, defect as defect,
He is free from these curses."
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