Tao 26
All art is an effort to make the darkness, visible. An effort to see that the emptiness is an illusion.
Despite appearances, all "things", all "ideas", are connected.
There is an ALL. There are invisible strings that bind like to like. Language
reveals this in metaphor, thought reveals it in poetry and the master reveals it in his or her being.
After all the facts are learned, the journey is only a quarter done. We must fill all the spaces that separate these factual stones in the endless stream of life. Only then can we bridge and travel between what we knew and what we want to know. This, we then call "understanding".
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