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What does it mean?
Life pulls all living things toward mystery and returns them there.
In plain terms
Life calls us to rise and eventually we return to the mystery.
What can you take from it?
Life is a cycle of rising and falling.

Where it applies

  • personal reflection
  • grief
  • spiritual practice

Putting it to work

  • accept cycles
  • embrace mystery
  • live fully

Questions to consider

  • What calls to you now?
  • Where do you return?

Another view

This fragment is too brief to form a clear argument.

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