Sunday, November 7, 2010

Does Stillness Truly Exist Within Motion?

Amidst the chaos of dozens of people circulating through the space, one individual stands still, seemingly calm and relaxed, glancing over his left shoulder at the woman next to him. Is this truly an anomaly? His apparent stillness captured in a brief moment of time, is illusionary. According to Fritjof Capra in his timeless book The Tao of Physics, "The Eastern mystics see the universe as an inseparable web, whose interconnections are dynamic and not static. Modern physics, too, has come to conceive of the universe as such a web of relations and, like Eastern mysticism, has recognized that this web is intrinsically dynamic." Nothing is what we perceive. 

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