"The Chinese know that living beauty is never static, never entirely revealed once and for all. As an entity animated by the Breath, it obeys the law of 'yin-xian,' 'hidden-revealed.' In the image of a mountain hidden by the mist, or the face of a woman behind a fan, its charm resides in the unveiling . . . The image of the mountain hidden in mist makes me think of the expression 'mist and cloud of Mount Lu,' which means, in Chinese, true beauty - which is, as it must be, mysterious and unfathomable."
Francois Cheng,
"The Way of Beauty"
Photo: The La Sal Mountains emerge out of the fog near Canyonlands National Park, UT; December 2, 2013
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