#216 Ego-gratification or Awakening - What are YOU training for?

     “In the West, our ideal of a whole person is someone who is adjusted, creative, not destroyed by passion and addiction, and successful by some worldly standard. … an alternative ideal (is) a person who does not cling like a magnet to collective, unconscious values. This person realizes that the satisfaction of the ego, known to us as success or self-esteem, does not offer the deep tranquility and the liberation from craving that quintessentially we yearn for. This awake person knows that being in tune with the law of one’s nature, which is not separate from the law of community and the law of the natural world, is the best definition of happiness.”
     Moore T. Original self. Living with paradox and authenticity. HarperCollins, NY, 2000.

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