I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who__ on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it__ alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.
The Power of Myth
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People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who__ on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it__ alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.
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