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Genetic evolution moves a lot less quickly than human history, making relics of much about our minds and bodies. It should be no wonder that we often eat too much, develop backache, tremble at the thought of sharks and get statistics entirely wrong. Narrowly speaking, it isn't our fault. It's just that a lot of who we are and what we want made a lot more sense in a world that no longer exists.

we can throw off the veil of illusion that works to separate us from the universe and start to identify with cosmic totality. It no longer matters exactly where we end and others begin; everything belongs to the same whole. There is a little less reason to grasp, to be puffed up, to be proud or to become embittered. We can survey the course of our lives and of our societies with calm indifference.

 »we should not be harsh or unjust toward  ourselves. We didn't personally make the world and we aren't individually responsible for its fate » .