Seventeen years ago, I read a book called The Evolving Self [by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow]. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, it profoundly affected the direction of my life. Here’s the section of the book that became a splinter in my mind and resonated the most with me:
“In order to gain control of consciousness, we must learn how to moderate the biases built into the machinery of the brain. We allow a whole series of illusions to stand between ourselves and reality…. These distortions are comforting, yet they need to be seen through for the self to be truly liberated… to come ever closer to getting a glimpse of the universal order, and of our part in it.”
Since reading that, I have dedicated my life to coming “ever closer to getting a glimpse of the universal order, and of our part in it.”Truthout
Transcend Conditioned Consciousness: None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds
David DeGraw, Notes From the Underground | News Analysis
