If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you aren’t afraid of dying,
there is nothing you can’t achieve.
Trying to control the future
is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place.
When you handle the master carpenter’s tools,
chances are that you’ll cut your hand.
This seems to remind me of candles. On the molecular level, the flame is changing so fast it burns our fingers to touch the flame for more than a split-second. The best way to put out a candle, to me, is to eliminate the oxygen that reacts with it. Fire is unlike other “elements,” because it is simply the effect of matter chemically changing in form. Fire is both amazingly beneficial and amazingly destructive.
By.Teon.Harasymiv.
A Layman's Philosophy 