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There are only two real mysteries.

There are only two real mysteries in the universe. Mystery Number One: Why is there something and not nothing? Mystery Number Two: How come we are conscious, what is consciousness, how come we think? All the other mysteries are sub-mysteries, and depend on these first two. Slightly connected,  a poem attributed to the Persian poet Hafez (1326 -1389): I wish I could show you,  when you are lonely or in the darkness,  the astonishing light of your own being.