Tao te Ching and Samsara

The second that we can perceive and remember stimulus, we are born into a world that is just as it is. There is nothing except the way and the path. Every step we take as individuals and as a society, the path becomes thicker with stones and bricks and asphalt until it is a veritable freeway. The depth of the ache in our hearts and the volume of our fear is directly proportional to the distance between your feet and the soil you were born upon.