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“I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'”

Gregory Bateson

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I'm a very serious person, but I don't take myself very seriously and I would rather laugh all day than argue.

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