The metaphysics of Heraclitus are sufficiently dynamic to satisfy the most hustling of moderns: “This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures kindling and measures going out.” “The transformations of Fire are, first of all, sea; and half of the s

Lao-tzu’s path to wholeness is through incompleteness, but an incompleteness so incomplete that he is reduced to one thing.