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“The first step to the knowledge of the
wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the
monstrous nature of the earthly realm as well
as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and
that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think
they know how the universe could have been had they
created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time,
without death, are unfit for illumination.”

~Joseph Campbell