Sift
(see also sand)

There is a passage from a fairy tale that concerns sifting or separating grains.  Here is what Clarissa Estes has to say about the meaning of separating this from that:

. . .A woman's psychic tasks are these: Learning fine discrimination, separating one thing from the other with finest discernment, learning to make fine distinctions in judgment (sorting the mildewed corn from the good corn, and sorting the poppy seeds from a pile of dirt).

. . .More learning about life (corn) and death (poppy seeds).

. . .we have to sort out our psychic healing agents, to sort and sort and sort to understand that food for the psyche is also medicine for the psyche, and to wring the truth, the essence, out of these elements for our own nourishment.

The above excerpt is from "Women Who Run With the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.  - a fabulous and highly recommended book!

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Lust