Marcelo A. de A.’s Reviews > The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are > Status Update

"Just because it is a hoax from the beggining, the personal ego can make only a phony response to life. For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it (...) and then trying to grasp it. Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all forms of life, the world would be static, rhytmless, undancing, mummified."

"Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith - in life, in other people, and in oneself - is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to BE spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time. This is, of course, risky because life and other people do not always respond to faith as we might wish. Faith is always a gamble because life itself is a gambling game."