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\u201cLet\u2019s say you\u2019ve inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it\u2019s soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure. More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day-to-day basis, folks, it doesn\u2019t get any better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

–Tom Robbins<\/a>, Esquire, Oct 1993<\/p>\n

(posted by Sera Beak<\/a>, substituting this week for Amy)<\/p>\n

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