A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.