All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word， all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

当1988年波克夏股票在纽约证券交易所挂牌上市时，巴菲特半开玩笑地对经纪商说

We live in an age of narrative complexity, where the stories we tell are as intricate as the lives we lead.

虚无是道的本体，因缘是道的作用。