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Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. as you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. there's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

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Aging Is A Staircase - The Upward

Jane Fonda

Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. as you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. there's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

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