"The Book of Changes, in a word, is a kind of geometry of mythology... It tells of the readiness of time and the art of moving with its tides, rocking with the waves, and is the most important statement remaining to us of that aspect of ancient Chinese thought which relates the individual to the order of the outer world."
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Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology (Penguin Books, 1976), p. 413
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