Laozi felt that intuitive, person-to-person communication is more effective than verbal communication. When a translation of Laozi misses the meaning of the Chinese original, a tiny miss makes a huge difference.
老子認為人與人的精神感知勝過語言文字，翻譯本與老子原意「差之毫釐，失之千里」，恐怕也早在老子意料之中？