Vacuity, tranquillity, mellowness, quietness and taking no action characterise things of the universe at peace and represent the ultimate Tao and virtue. Therefore abide in them.
The universe has been created out of knowledge and action and seems also possessed of consciousness.
If you seek to understand the whole universe you will understand nothing at all but seek to understand yourself and you will understand the whole universe.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…
Science tells theology about the structure and history of the universe and its evolutionary nature. Religious insight can set the laws of nature in a more profound context of understanding, so that their deep order, rational beauty and anthropic fine-tuning become intelligible.
