Tao Te Ching

“I knew my true face and my sole duty: to work this face with as much patience, love, and skill as I could manage... to turn it into flame so that Charon would find nothing of me to take. For this was my greatest ambition: to leave nothing for death to take—nothing but a few bones.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE
from Report to Greco