Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.

You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.

You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

At these crossover points, there are a lot of beings, nonphysical beings that cross over back and forth constantly.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.

The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.