It’s true that the spectacle of everyday life and the most rudimentary self-observation reveal a thousand faults, such as jealousy, bad-mouthing, mockery. These are defects that are hard to root out. But all of that isn’t enough to make me lose my belief in the grandeur of being human. That just means that we must double our efforts to reunite with the fundamental ground of all grounds, the profound nature of our being that is beyond these emotional mechanisms.
