Source: Tao Te Ching
(Chinese)
The Way that can be
experienced is not true;
The world that can be
constructed is not real.
The Way
manifests all that happens and may happen;
The world represents all
that exists and may exist.
To
experience without abstraction is to sense the world;
To
experience with abstraction is to know the world.
These two experiences are
indistinguishable;
Their construction
differs but their effect is the same.
Beyond
the gate of experience flows the Way,
Which is ever greater and
more subtle than the world.