Roger CrpwleyThe lintel of more than one collapsed Venetian house on Crete bears the Latin motto ‘The world is nothing but smoke and shadows’.
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The world is made up of smoke and shadows, both of which are subject to change. When we believe in something, we see the world around us as a solid object. But when we do not believe in something, we see all the things that we know and love about that thing as nothing more than smoke and shadows. When we can accept that things that we love and trust can be nothing more than smoke and shadows, then we will be able to accept and love the world just as it is.
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