“Our lives are what they are in large part because of the weakness and passivity of our attention…We are taken, our attention is taken, swallowed, by our streams of automatic thought; we constantly disappear into our emotional reactions; we are taken by our fears and desires, our pleasures and pains, by our daydreams and imaginary worries. And, being taken, we no longer exist as I, myself, here. We do not live our lives; we are lived and we may eventually die without ever having awakened to what we really are — without having lived.”
—Jacob Needleman
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