Anxiety is a particularly stupid form of narcissism. In a sense it stems from a struggle to define and control our world with the language we have acquired to describe it. Any language immediately privileges human agency over natural order: privileges the signifier over the signified: wallows in its own activity at the expense of the 'passive' world beyond it. This is totally narcissistic and highlights the hidden but not so subtle fact that the real subject of any act of language is not the world but he who speaks. And this is one of the principal insights of Taiji: that communication – the flow and exchange of energy – is stifled by language if only because language is too slow and coarse and clunky to do justice to the real world, which is not that of objects, or even relationships, but that of energy and spirit.