“There is a thing, formless yet complete.
Before heaven and earth it existed.
Without sound, without substance,
it stands alone and unchanging.
It is all-pervading and unfailing.
One may think of it as the mother of all beneath Heaven.
We do not know its name, but we call it Tao.
Deep and still, it seems to have existed forever.”
Lao Tzu
“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.”
– Toni Morrison