An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination _ through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination _ through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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