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That last line. Fire.

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This reflects the teachings of the Tao

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Beautiful indeed, thanks. I added this passage to my notes:

'Emptiness is our sense of what’s missing: the nagging feeling of insufficiency, of anxiety, of a void that can never be filled. It’s the space between us and our lovers, us and our family, that can never be bridged.

What causes it? In psychoanalytic terms, you could say that we spend our lives chasing after an original feeling of perfection, a pre-anxious state of total union with our parents, that we never successfully recreate again. The gap between that desired ideal and the imperfection of all adult relationships is the emptiness we feel. Our attempt to fill the void is what Mark Epstein calls the “desperate longing for inexhaustible abundance.” [...]

When we were toddlers we saw our parents as all-knowing and omniscient. No relationship after that point will ever offer us that level of security.'

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Beautiful...and Buddhism and the Landmark Forum in a nutshell.

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