And if something parochial is blinding you, that needs to die for something more cosmopolitan and broader and deeper to be reborn.

如果一些狭隘的想法使你被蒙蔽，这些想法就该死亡，从而让一些更开阔,更深刻，更具世界性的东西重生。

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because something inside of you has to die in order for something to be reborn.

因为你内心的某些东西必去死去,这样另外一些东西才能重生。

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Mythologies are the lives or tales of the lives of gods, tales of the lives of the gods. In pagan religions the gods are born, and they live lives very similar to human lives but on a grand scale and then they die. They might be reborn too.

神话记载了众神的生活故事，众神的一生，在异教里，神是受孕而生的，他们群居，并且生活习惯和人类非常相似,他们也会死亡，也许还会重生。

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