Thinking About Paradox

A quote from the Tao Te Ching hangs in my line of vision as I write this:

“The universe is sacred.

You cannot improve it.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it.

If you try to hold it, you will lose it.”

Depending on your point of view, this is either philosophical mumbo jumbo, shallowness masked as profundity, or it…