True wisdom

This pearl, from pg. 2 of Raymond Smullyan's The Tao is Silent, is particularly relevant to me right now as I procrastinate, neither working (as I could be) nor sleeping (as I ought to be).

Had I been Laotse, I would have added the following maxim—which I think is the quintessence of Taoist philosophy:

The Sage falls asleep not 

because he ought to 

Nor even because he wants to

But because he is sleepy.

True words of wisdom indeed.