Death is the beginning of life
Life is the companion of death;
death is the beginning of life.
Who can understand
how the two are related?
We arrive here from the unknown
and go back to where we came from.
What people love about life
is its miraculous beauty;
what they hate about death
is the loss and decay around it.
Yet losing is not losing,
and decay turns into beauty,
as beauty turns back into decay.
We are breathed in, breathed out.
Therefore all you need
is to understand the one breath.
— Chuang Tzu
death is the beginning of life.
Who can understand
how the two are related?
We arrive here from the unknown
and go back to where we came from.
What people love about life
is its miraculous beauty;
what they hate about death
is the loss and decay around it.
Yet losing is not losing,
and decay turns into beauty,
as beauty turns back into decay.
We are breathed in, breathed out.
Therefore all you need
is to understand the one breath.
— Chuang Tzu
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