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For the Greeks, the ultimate Truth attained by reason is to be found above the world, separate from the world, in a dimension of eternal abstraction. In the Indian cosmos, dualism took a different form: the source of meaning is both above material things and hidden deep within them, and is glimpsed by piercing through both the reasoning faculty and the senses.
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The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
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