Niamh

“The interval between the beginning of 'I am' (birth or waking) and when you lose it again (death or deep sleep) is called 'time.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.”
― Walter Russell

“The unusual difficulty in making Qi intelligible in modern Western philosophy suggests that the underlying Chinese metaphysical assumption is significantly different from the Cartesian
dichotomy between spirit and matter.... (furthermore) the continuous presence in Chinese philosophy of the idea of Qi as a way of conceptualizing the base structure and function of the cosmos, despite the availability of symbolic resources to make an analytical distinction between spirit and matter as an undifferentiated whole. The loss of analytical clarity is compensated by the reward of imaginative richness. The fruitful ambiguity of Qi allows philosophers to explore realms of being which are inconceivable to people constricted to Cartesian dichotomy.”
― Tui Wei-ming

“At the most embryonic state, the tendency toward the fullness of actualization is already latent.”
― François Jullien, The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China