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Based on an allegory by Baal HaSulam in "Introduction to The Book of Zohar"

The worm born inside a radish

Sits there thinking
That the Creator's world
Is as bitter,
Dark,
And small
As the radish
In which it was born.

But as soon as the worm
Breaks through the radish's peel
And gets a glimpse of the outside,
It says in wonderment,
"I thought the entire world
Was the size of the radish in which I was born,
But now I see
A great,
Bright,
And truly beautiful world
Before me."