“Typically during the child’s high school years, the ego becomes predominant in his life. When this happens, the child’s joy of simply existing will be veiled by the ego’s need to achieve more. The child will start to impose conditions on his happiness because he thinks he should only be happy when certain criteria have been fulfilled. But even when”
― Apotheosis Now: Rabbit Hole to the Beyond
― Apotheosis Now: Rabbit Hole to the Beyond
“Western thought has changed so rapidly in this century that we are in a state of considerable confusion. Not only are there serious difficulties of communication between the intellectual and the general public, but the course of our thinking and of our very history has seriously undermined the common-sense assumptions which lie at the roots of our social conventions and institutions.”
― The Way of Zen
― The Way of Zen
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