All the same they know not where they were before birth, nor where they will be after death.
They ignore their passions.

They take no account of their ears and eyes.

Backwards and forwards through all eternity, they do not admit a beginning or an end.

They stroll beyond the dust and dirt of mortality, to wander in the realms of inaction.

How should such men trouble themselves with the conventionalities of this world, or care what people may think of them ?" Life comes, says Chuang Tzu, and cannot be declined; it goes, and cannot be stopped.