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Conversely, we are fascinated by stories that we can relate to. Basically, we're a giant planet of narcissists.

The Storytelling Edge

Shane Snow, Joe Lazauskas

In the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita, the divine avatar Krishna declares, “They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them.”

The Myth of Normal

Gabor Maté, MD

Only afterward did I wonder if this was what the mystics call the mysterium tremendum—the blinding unendurable mystery (whether of God or some other Ultimate or Absolute) before which humans tremble in awe. Huxley described it as the fear “of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cosy world of symbols, could possibly bear.”

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

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