Sometimes I think I'm a character in somebody's novel. The freer I become in my thought and action, the more useful and interesting I am in the story. And I also am writing a novel, making up characters and making them do things. They behave, sometimes, as if they had minds and wills of their own, yet they are my characters and expressions of me, just as I am of It. I am doing what It does.
Tadpoles become frogs.
Tadpoles don't know they're going to become frogs. We are tadpoles and don't know we're going to become frogs. Some Sages are frogs and can remember when they were tadpoles. They try to tell us, but we don't believe them. In theory, most of us would rather be frogs than tadpoles, but we don't quite trust it, and shrink back from the transformation process.