“That is the first question, isn’t it? Why do you resist greed and who is the entity that says, ‘I must be free of greed’? The entity that says, ‘I must be free’ is also greed, is he not? Up to now, greed has paid him, but now it is painful; therefore he says, ‘I must get rid of it’. The motive to get rid of it is still a process of greed, because he is wanting to be something which he is not. Non-greed is now profitable, so I am pursuing non-greed; but the motive, the intention, is still to be something, to be non-greedy – which is still greed, surely; which is again a negative form of the emphasis on the ‘me’.”
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The First and Last Freedom
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