Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn__ show you your reflection. It showed you your soul__t showed you who you really were.The wizard couldn__ look at it without turning away. The king couldn__ look at it. The courtiers couldn__ look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for sixty seconds without turning away. And no one could.
Who does ever get what they want? It doesn__ seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It__ always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.
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Who does ever get what they want? It doesn__ seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It__ always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.
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