What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either. As mortal flesh, you and I cannot ascend to the upper realm. That sphere belongs to the gods. But we can't put it out of our minds either. We can't escape intimations and half-memories of...what? Some prior sojourn, before birth perhaps, among the immortals or the stars. Our lot, instead, is to dwell here in the lower realm, the sphere of the temporal and the material — the time-bound dimension of instincts and animal passions, of hate and desire, aspiration
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