Nevertheless, it is also true that we aren’t always living fully, we aren’t always actualizing our life. This is because unlike the flowers in the fields, human beings bear the burden of thought. Thought has a dual nature: thought springs from life, and yet it has the ability to think of things totally ungrounded and detached from the fact of life. This is delusion and it leads to some strange consequences. A politician says to herself, “I’ve got to whip Tanaka in the election,” and her heart races—though she is alone in her room talking to herself and not in the midst of any competition. A
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