The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Gary Snyder
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The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots. This quote is supposed to remind us that we must be willing to suffer and die for what we believe in. The idea is that we must be willing to accept our loved ones as they are now and not try to change or improve them. If we truly loved someone, we would love all of them, including those aspects of our loved ones that we might not like. This way, they could still be loved as they are, by those who love them as they are now.

Source: Practice Of The Wild

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