Self-realization, like music, images time. But whereas music images lived time, self-realization images the virtual time particular to personal myth. In the well-lived life the sense of eternal return native to personal myth becomes an awareness of continual, richening return to what we now are and always have been. The recurrence transtemporalizes us, raising the life course into a living work of art.
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