The Tao that can be amassed is not the enduring Tao
The name that can be named is not the enduring name
Though it has no name, from it comes heaven and earth
Though it has no name, from it comes all that exists
To live without motive is to experience the world
To live with motive is to be divorced from the world
Though we still live either way
The latter lets us see only glimpses of reality
For the world is not a construct of our mind
The world is the world
Delicate and subtler than all our imaginings
More magical and unqualified than all our thoughts
Tao of Wisdom