Status Updates From Original Tao

That mind within the mind: it is an awareness that precedes words./Only after there is awareness does it take shape;/Only after it takes shape is there a word./Only after there is a word is it implemented.;/Only after it is implemented is there order./Without order, you will always be chaotic./If chaotic, you die.

I love reading the scholarly analyses around the translation... Even if they have very little to do with the reason I'm actually reading this book. I'm such a closet anthropologist.