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Before the beggining, there is only reality, formless and perfect, solitary, infinite, free. There's no name for it, there's no ripple of a name. The name is the ripple. In the ripple the whole lake arises. No ripple, no lake.

What's real is nameless. It doesn't change, it doesn't flow, it doesn't leave or return, it doesn't even exist, it's beyond existence or non-existence. If you call it something, you get nothing. So call it "the Tao" if you like; that's as good a name as any. Whatever you call it, that isn't it. And it's always a beginning.

--Byron Katie, from "A Thousand Names For Joy"