superiority complex

May 03, 2007 16:30

"We suffer a lot in our society from loneliness. So much of our life is an attempt to not be lonely: 'Let's talk to each other; let's do things together so we won't be lonely.' And yet inevitably, we are really alone in these human forms. We can pretend; we can entertain each other; but that's about the best we can do. When it comes to the actual experience of life, we're very much alone; and to expect anyone else to take away our loneliness is asking too much." - American Buddhist monk Ajahn Sumedho

I really do hope not, and otherwise I'm becoming a pretty good pretender.

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