Chuang Tzu

"Earth's natural process is itself both our fate in life and our transcendence, for self is but a fleeting form taken on by earth's process of change - born out of it, and returned to it in death. Or more precisely, never out of it: totally unborn. Our truest self, being unborn, is all and none of earth's fleeting forms simultaneously." David Hinton, Chuang Tzu, The Inner Chapters.

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