Tao...

"Something mysteriously formed,
Born before heaven and earth.

In the silence and the void,
Standing alone and unchanging,
Ever present and in motion.

Perhaps it is the mother of ten thousand things.

I do not know its name.

Call it Tao.

For lack of a better word, I call it great."


Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, 25
Translated by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English
NY: Random House Vintage, 1972, pages unnumbered