International Journal of Language & Linguistics

The Tao of Language
Stanley McCray

Abstract
Atomic physics provided the scientists with the first glimpses of the essential nature of things. Like the mystics, physicists were now dealing with a non-sensory experience of reality and, like the mystics, they had to face the paradoxical aspects of this experience. From then on therefore, models and images of modern physics became akin to those of Eastern philosophy.) The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful, yet this is only the ugly; the whole world recognizes the good as the good, yet this is only the bad. Thus, Something and Nothing produce each other; the long and the short off-set each other; the high and the low incline towards each other; note and sound harmonize with each other; before and after follow each other.(Capra 1984:38-39)

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