As once the wingéd energy of delight

carried you over childhood's dark abysses,

now beyond your own life build the great 

arch of unimagined bridges.

Wonders happen if we can succeed 

in passing through the harshest danger; 

but only in a bright and purely granted

achievement can we realize the wonder. 

To work with Things in the indescribable 

relationship is not too hard for us;

the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,

and being swept along is not enough.

Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between two contradictions. . . . 

For the god

wants to know himself in you.

— RAINER MARIA RILKE

Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present. This nothingness has the part equal to the whole, and the whole to the part, the divisible to the indivisible; and the product of the sum is the same whether we divide or multiply, and in addition as in subtraction; as is proved by arithmeticians by their tenth figure which represents zero; and its power has not extension among the things of Nature.”

Leonardo da Vinci

Non-existence is called the antecedent of heaven and earth; Existence is the mother of all things. From eternal non-existence, therefore, we serenely observe the mysterious beginning of the Universe; From eternal existence we clearly see the apparent distinctions. These two are the same in source and become different when manifested.”

”Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name;

this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.”

”The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present.”

-tao