The Laws of Thermodynamics
Zeroth: You must play .
First: You can't win.
Second: You can't break even.
Third: You can't even get out of the game.

There are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, none of them in the slightest bit remarkable. But arranged in different combinations, you can sometimes get

The Declaration of Independence,
The King James Version,
The Gettysburg Address
The Works of Shakespeare

There are 92 chemical elements in nature, dust indeed; stardust, in fact, forged billions of years ago in the cores of exploding stars. By themselves, collected in jars, they are just dust in the wind. But arranged in different combinations, you can sometimes get this:

or this:

or even this:

Sometimes, the Spirit Guide has his head up his ass.