Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe … - Lewis Carroll

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In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.

Lewis Carroll

Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar. ' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it. ' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course. ' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

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