Chuang Tzu is not concerned with words and formulas about reality, but with the direct existential grasp of reality in itself. (Thomas Merton)

Chuang Tzu is not concerned with words and formulas about reality, but with the direct existential grasp of reality in itself.

Thomas Merton

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