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Utterly Bleak And Black Is Not The Sum Of Realism. All The Other Colors Are Real, Too.

Adversity Does Teach Who Your Real Friends Are.

Miles Exhaled Carefully, Faint With Rage And Reminded Grief. He Does Not Know, He Told Himself. He Cannot Know... "ivan, One Of These Days Somebody Is Going To Pull Out A Weapon And Plug You, And You're Going To Die In Bewilderment, Crying, "what Did I Say? What Did I Say?" "what Did I Say?" Asked Ivan Indignantly.

In Mysticism, Knowledge Cannot Be Separated From A Certain Way Of Life Which Becomes Its Living Manifestation. To Acquire Mystical Knowledge Means To Undergo A Transformation; One Could Even Say That The Knowledge Is The Transformation. Scientific Knowledge, On The Other Hand, Can Often Stay Abstract And Theoretical. Thus Most Of Today’s Physicists Do Not Seem To Realize The Philosophical, Cultural And Spiritual Implications Of Their Theories.

Like Integrity, Love Of Life Was Not A Subject To Be Studied, It Was A Contagion To Be Caught. And You Had To Catch It From Someone Who Had It.