I dare not deal with this element in its pure essence. It is too rare for the wings of words.
I dare not deal with this element in its pure essence. It is too rare for the wings of words.
The Tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
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The unnamable
is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Stephen Mitchell, The Tao Te Ching: A new English version (New York: Harper & Row, 1988).
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