道德经

The quality that can be defined is not the Absolute Quality.
The names that can be given it are not Absolute names.
It is the origin of heaven and earth.
When named it is the mother of all things...
Quality (romantic Quality) and its manifestations (classic Quality) are in their nature the same. It is given different names (subject and objects) when it becomes classically manifest.
Romantic quality and classic quality together may be called the "mystic".
Reaching from mystery into deeper mystery, it is the gate to the secret of all life.
Quality is all pervading.
And its use is inexhaustible!
Fathomless!
Like the fountainhead of all thins...
Yet crystal clear like water it seems to remain.
I do not know whose Son it is.
An image of what existed before God.
...Continuously, continuously it seems to remain. Draw upon it and it serves you with ease...
Looked at but cannot be seen...listened to but cannot be heard... grasped at but cannot be touched...there three elude all our inquires and hence blend and become one.
Not by its rising is there light,
Not by its sinking is there darkness
Unceasing, continuous
It cannot be defined
And reverts again into the realm of nothingness
That is why it is called the form of the formless
The image of nothingness
That is why it is called elusive
Meet it and you do not see its face
Follow it and you do not see its back
He who holds fast to the quality of old
Is able to know the primeval beginnings
Which are the continuity of quality.

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