For Taoism concerns itself with unconventional knowledge, with the understanding of life directly, instead of in the abstract, linear terms of repres… - Alan Watts

we stopped rushing and found that with less haste, we had more speed, since rushing sets up a whole multitude of antagonistic vibrations.

It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

Perception thus narrowed has the advantage of being sharp and bright, but it has to focus on one area of the world after another, and one feature after another. And where there are no features, only space or uniform surfaces, it somehow gets bored and searches about for more features. Attention is therefore something like a scanning mechanism in radar or television, and Norbert Wiener and his colleagues found some evidence that there is a similar process in the brain.