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Quote From The Tao After Burying Someone?


I am thinking it was in Season Two, But that could be wrong. Caine was at the grave and said a few words.

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Could it have been from the episode, the Chalice? That was a season 2 episode.

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I will have to check it out.

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"Something mysteriously formed,
Born before heaven and Earth.
In the silence and the void,
Standing alone and unchanging,
Ever present and in motion.
Perhaps it is the mother of ten thousand things.
I do not know its name
Call it Tao.
For lack of a better word, I call it great."

[Caine adds: "For lack of a better name, we call her Anna."]

Here is the rest of #25:

Being great, it flows
I flows far away.
Having gone far, it returns.

Therefore, "Tao is great;
Heaven is great;
Earth is great;
The king is also great."
These are the four great powers of the universe,
And the king is one of them.

Man follows Earth.
Earth follows heaven.
Heaven follows the Tao.
Tao follows what is natural.

from this translation: http://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html#Kap25

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