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The goal is to take your mind—a wonderful thing that has spent its life learning to chase various creatures —and teach it to stop chasing its own tail. To stop chasing meaning and freedom and happiness because those only serve to move it further away from itself. To teach it to achieve what it desires by giving up what it desires. To show it how the only way to reach the surface is to let itself sink.

And how do we do this? By letting go . By giving up. By surrendering. Not out of weakness. But out of a respect that the world is beyond our grasp.

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