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“Suppose 10 different sculpture artists are thinking about what they are going to sculpt next. If you show them a rough rock, they won't see rock; they will see what they are thinking of carving from it. Similarly, the universe is just a rough rock. Different souls see different things in it.”

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“What we do in our lives and our work is greatly infuenced by metaphors-the pictures we have in our minds about how the world works or ought to work. Often these images are more real to us than reality itself.”

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