where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise. - Alan Watts

Lao-tzu didn’t actually say very much more about the meaning of Tao. The Way of Nature, the Way of happening self-so, or, if you like, the very process of life, was something which he was much too wise to define. For to try to say anything definite about the Tao is like trying to eat your mouth: you can’t get outside it to chew it. To put it the other way round: anything you can chew is not your mouth.

The organism of man does not confront the world but is in the world.

But the mind-body is a system which conserves and accumulates energy. While doing this it is properly lazy. When the energy is store, it is just as happy to move, and yet to move skillfully — along the line of least resistance. Thus it is not only necessity, but also laziness, which is the mother of invention.