There’s a veil between life and death, and the soul transmigrates from lifetime to lifetime, through age to age, and one day matures and learns what it is–a piece of God submerged in matter. Fortune favours the fool, the one who can see the joke but still respects the drama #tao
Your waking and sleeping, your birth and your death, are exactly the same kind of rhythmic phenomena as the stars and their surrounding darkness. To be afraid of life is to be afraid of yourself.
We must learn to include ourselves in the round of cooperations and conflicts, of symbiosis and preying, which constitutes the balance of nature, for a permanently victorious species destroys, not only itself, but all other life in its environment.
Getting that integrity's a mountain with no top leaves us as individuals with
1) power
2) the ability to be authentic about our out-of-integrity inauthenticities
3) better able to relate to those around us who also are dealing with the fact that integrity's a mountain with no top