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Quotes about Ordinary life

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

Huston Smith : Gaia Child
Huston Smith
Source: Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography
Contributed by: Matthew Moes. More quotes added by mattmoes from this | all sources
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