Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 per cent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself —
And there isn’t one.
Warum bist du unglücklich?
Weil 99,9 Prozent von allem, was du denkst und von allem was du tust, dreht sich um dich selbst -
doch da ist gar keiner.
— von Wei Wu Wei
“We have a basic conditioning, probably in some form of Christian religion, of which little remains today but its ethical content, or in one of the modern psychologies, that of Freud, Adler, or Jung, or in some scientific discipline, all of 
which are fundamentally and implacably dualist. Then the [seeking] urge manifests, and we start reading. Every time we happen on a statement or sentiment that fits in with our conditioned notions we adopt it, perhaps with enthusiasm, at the same time ignoring, as though they did not exist, the statements or sentiments which either we did not like or did not understand. And every time we re-read the Masters or the sutras we seize upon further chosen morsels, as our own jig-saw puzzle builds up within us, until we have a personal patchwork that corresponds with nothing on Earth that could matter in the least. Not in a thousand million kalpas could such a process produce the essential understanding that the urge is obliging us to seek.”
from Ask The Awakened, 1963
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