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I’m not sure where these words came from. If I had to assign a meaning to them it would be something like —<\/p>\n
We work so hard to be excellent at what nature can do without a thought.<\/p>\n
We are also nature, so it must follow that we can create magnificent works of beauty if we settle into our own true nature.<\/p>\n
If we did settle into our true nature though, we’d have to accept imperfection as perfection and that would be awfully painful to do.<\/p>\n
Perhaps it’s easier to just keep on scrambling after the illusion after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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