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Heaven and earth endure.
If they endure, it is because they live not for themselves. It is because of this that they endure.

So the master puts themselves after others, yet remains the first.
They are detached from their body, yet conserve their body.

Is it not because they have no desires for themselves that all their desires are fulfilled?"

• Tao Te Ching •

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By earth my first breath
by nature my first reverence
by greed my first sigh

I wake up and greet
my pain and my desires
that I may know them

one must know both well
to recognize their siblings
and avoid their traps

What then still remains
once emotion has been quelled
how does earth endure?

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Locations:
Zion National Park
Bryce Canyon