
Materialism blinds observers to subtle physical realities
Gold veins hide beneath ordinary soil until an acute physical sense detects their presence. Western prospectors blind themselves by treating wealth as a supreme pursuit rather than a trivial subterranean anomaly. Prolonged isolation in nature refined the guest's perception until his body grew semi-transparent. Long winter nights near a remote fiord finally forced the reluctant traveler to speak of his flight across the ocean mist.
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