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"And if everything you lost came back to you, would that make you happy?"
"It's not the things. It's what they meant."
"How have you lost their meaning?"
She is silent. She has no answers for questions like these.
"Be grateful," it pleads. "It is better to exist than not to. For that reason alone, be grateful."

She remembers a man from the jungles of Guangxi who de- scribed something similar when he ate the mushrooms he care- fully cultivated in his backyard. He described it as peeling away layers of personality until all that existed was a lack of self, and in its place, something eternal, the core of consciousness, an in- finite sea from which all things are born. He had only stood on the shore and let the waves touch his

"I understand," she said. "The search will go on forever, too. It will be endless, like everything else out there. Do you see? One person had an idea that led to others. It's like a story someone began that keeps on writing itself, long after the authors are dead." —Aubry

How to kill Thought if not by Thinking?