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True Satisfaction

That little one, poor fellow, has to live with two conflicting pieces of knowledge - the deep conviction that all the world is his in reality, and the superficial certainty that almost none of it is his in practice. Result: greed. He's driven to amass around himself all manner of possessions - tokens of his infinite wealth - regardless of how trivial and superfluous and plain cock-eyed they may be… Regardless of the fact that these possessions, taken together, make such demands on him that they come to possess him. Regardless of the fact that only the moment of getting is pleasure: before that is the pain of not having, after that the pain of not having... The Big One is relieved of both pains. He's so Big there's nothing left to get and have. He doesn't own a thing. You name it, he is it. As No-thing whatever he's capacious of all things, and is satisfied. (Douglas Harding. The Trial of the Man who said he was God.)


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