The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel.
Frank Herbert, Dune
The spice is not out there. It's certainly not on another planet. The spice, rather, is inside you, deep inside you. Meditation, consideration, contemplation - space - is required to get at it. Solitude and silence too. The tale of Dune (and of the spice planet Arrakis) is the tale of the desert and the wilderness. It is also the tale of the qualities - space, solitude, silence - required to engage that wilderness and 'mine the spice'. And the time required to mine it, be it a decade or a lifetime, is nothing compared to the eternity conferred - the expanded consciousness - when the spice is duly found.
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