Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

Brandon Sanderson
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Ash doesn't think, does not even have a mind. It simply is. It does nothing. It is unable to think or feel.

It is, for lack of a better word, lifeless. The same goes for the wind, which is air without any consciousness of itself. The mist itself has absolutely no awareness of itself at all.

It can't think, feel, or know anything about itself. Vin was not like these things. She was alive with emotions and thoughts and feelings and knowledge and dreams and desires and aspirations and fears and hopes.

She was human with all these things but more so than any other human on this planet she could let go of them all at any given time, she could let them go without any thought at all because she knew that they would always come back again no matter what she did.

Source: The Final Empire

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