21 levels of Self-Deception: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview
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23. Conclusion
‘Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are who we think ourselves to be.’
Henri Amiel
‘There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.’
Louise L’Amour — Lonely on the Mountain
Spirit and Soul — Ascendancy and Descendancy
The division of spirit and soul is one of the main divisions of this work. We have seen that spirit is favoured in our culture and this is reflected in abstract and unachievable goals. Soul, by contrast, is the side of life that is very much neglected. Many of the boundaries, the economies, identified in this work have been reflections of this fundamental split. However, both are needed and both can be brought back into balance. We’ve traced this balance through several stages. Firstly, just in seeing — seeing the ordinary things in life transformed into the extraordinary. Then, responding. Beauty as
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