Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time... What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?... we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath.”

Lewis Thomas 1913 – 1993 CE
Gestaltist of science and art
from Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (1984)

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Themes

Lies

Deception