The Eternal Sacrifice

"It is not to Egypt that I am going,' said the Swallow.  I am going to the House of Death.  Death is the brother of Sleep, is he not?"

And he kissed the Happy Prince on the lips, and fell down dead at his feet.

Nothing gets taken out of the world, nor added to it.

Life is but a dream.

To know the divine is to abandon the self - such is the price of consciousness.