The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
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Play Life More Beautifully in the Age of Extinction
By Carolyn Baker — 2016
Will we spend the rest of our days either dining on doom or drowning in denial or feast on what lights us up?
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