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A fool listens to everything and hears nothing.  The sage listens to nothing and hears everything.  They both live in the same universe but are strangers to its true absurdness.  The lives they live transcend time, space, the universe, and even life itself.  The universe is as strange to them as they are to each other and themselves.  The universe is a stranger to itself.  As the universe is strange to nature, nature has a strange affinity to the universe. 

Nature's animals have a strange relationship to the universe, but not to nature.  They see things more like sages than fools.  Animals are seemingly deaf, dumb, and blind, as though not part of life.  Detached from human life as though dead.  But in reality they understand all things and are quite alive. 

Fools for the most part don't understand animals, sages, or nature, even though they are a part of them. Fools don't know themselves, although they pretend to have an infinite understanding and insight into everything around them.  They don't care for others and degrade each other.  Their rhythm and reason rhyme as seasons dance with time.

Blood is thicker than water.  Money is thicker than blood.  Water is thicker than money or blood.  Is blood really thicker than water?  Life and love transcend all three.  Does life and love transcend the universe?  Some think not; others think so.  Time is the universe, and so is space.