Tao Te Ching

“Everyone's life is a journey to themselves. Though none have attained self-realization, all strive for it—some plodding, some with less effort, but all as best they can. Each of us caries the remains of our birth—slime and eggshells—with us to the end.”

— Hermann Hesse 1877 – 1962 CE via Shan Dao
from Demian