They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something, they are always uneasy and restless.

The West is something like that: we aren’t unified by ethnicities or geography, but by how we express ourselves in the world.

As a true Western individual, he then figured that it wasn’t Steve Jobs that needed to conform to the world, but the world that had to receive Steve Jobs’s vision. And the vision trying to express itself through him was as divorced from social expectations as it was overwhelming.

When things go south in our lives, we are prone to blaming mere circumstances or contingencies for the re-emergence of the ever-present primordial lack in the field of our attention. We are very good at conjuring up eminently reasonable causes for what is always with us, as part of us: we blame the economy, the boss, the partner, the weather, the n

solace is the result of an alignment—a resonance—between our inner attitude and our true nature.

a tragic schism in our collective psyche: a divorce between nature and narrative, being and action.

All we must recognize is that the past and the future are always here, right now, amenable to inquiry and integration, as opposed to being untouchable monsters playing with us as if we were remote-controlled marionettes.

Individual expression is the engine of the West. We feel the unique push of nature rising from deep within us; a push that others have variously called fate, destiny, calling, vocation, lot, etc.

To cut a Western mind off from its past and future is a mutilation, a neutering of the eternal present, a form of spiritual bypassing.