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The war against the self is the internalization of the war against nature.
We have been taught that we need an act of will to overcome our base natures. But when we try too hard to be good, we only separate ourselves from others.

— Charles Eisenstein

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Source: Charles Eisenstein, Oral presentation in Baltimore, MD March 2012
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