In the world, but not of the world, I-centered activity requires still the fruit of the action . Somebody who acts in the world and the world. Such a course of action goes against the natural wisdom of life itself, has got some traces of violence in itself. The wise man on the other hand, the man of insight, acting from Tao, the act itself is not even aware, because awareness of which would indicate an imperfect act from the source. Such a man is in the world but not of the world.