08-24-2011, 06:14 PM
(08-24-2011, 12:19 AM)cladking Wrote: Ironically if I'm right about the ancients then words were immensely powerful to them and the written word was even moreso. Words had the power to open vistas of discovery and to understand nature.
That idea mirrors Taoism.
Tao te Ching chapter 1:
The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.