The Great Integrity is so easy to understand, and so easy to practice. Yet it is not understood. Nor is it practiced.
It is not understood because people’s heads are filled with 10,000 trivia and rationalizations, leaving no space for anything else.
It is not practiced because people are kept busy, though bored with the 10,000 corruptions and miseries that leave no time for the Three Treasures.
The Great Integrity is so ancient, as old as the universe itself! How can we expect people to remember it after so many millenia of repression?
That is why sages dress in rags while they wear the Three Treasures deep inside their hearts.
Tao Te Ching, Verse 70. Written by Lao Tzu, translated by Ralph Alan Dale.
Wulfruna Sufi Association 
This is such a beautiful post.
Andrés
It is indeed beautiful. Thank you for posting this—one of my favorite passages from the Dao De Jing.
Incidentally, the “three treasures” he speaks of are:
慈 ci: love or compassion
儉 jian: simplicity
不敢為天下先 which means something like “daring not to be first in all the world.” It’s often simply rendered as “humility” in English, but I like the longer sentence in Chinese.
I think sages from all traditions do indeed wear these treasures in their hearts.