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Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

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Stephen Levine
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 17
Died: 2016
Died: January 17
Poet
Screenwriter
the United States of America
Stephan Levine
Ultimate
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Understanding
Truth
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Seduction

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