When no machinery is set in motion, and yet the instrumentation is complete, this is the music of God.

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When no machinery is set in motion, and yet the instrumentation is complete, this is the music of God. The mind awakes to its enjoyment without waiting to be called. Accordingly, Yu Piao praised it, saying, 'Listening you cannot hear its sound; gazing you cannot see its form. It fills heaven and earth. It embraces the six cardinal points.'

Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 14, §5 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Chuang Tzu, heavenly joy is felt but cannot be put into words: it is perceiving becoming before it takes shape, hearing what has no sound yet, seeing what has no form yet, that is to say the Principle that fills heaven and earth. Today, take a minute to listen to the silence of a place and to look at what is only just beginning: a shoot, a glimmer, a breath.

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