—Cicero c. 44 BCE

Why do you insist the universe is not a conscious intelligence,

when it gives birth to conscious intelligence?


—Cicero
c. 44 BCE

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It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

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To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead, for without the possibility of growth and change there can be no Tao. In reality there is nothing in the universe which is completely perfect or completely still; it is only in the minds of men that such concepts exist.

—Alan Watts