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“You came into this world at this time because you wanted to. You chose it as a spiritual mission, and you arrived ready and prepared. You can do hard things. Instead of losing hope, recognise that you are part of a global awakening and a shift in human consciousness that has been centuries in the making, and you have a role to play.”

“But surely, say these good apostles, you aren't going to discredit reality in the eyes of those who already find it difficult enough to get by, and who surely have a right to reality and the fact that they exist? The same objection for the Third World: surely you aren't going to discredit affluence in the eyes of those dying of starvation? Or: surely you aren't going to run down the class struggle in the eyes of those who haven't even had their bourgeois revolution? Or again: you aren't going to discredit feminist and egalitarian demands in the eyes of all those who haven't even heard of women's rights, etc.? You may not like reality, but don't put others off it! It's a question of democratic morality: you must not demoralize the masses. You must never demoralize anyone. Underlying these charitable intentions is a profound contempt. First, in the fact of instating reality as a kind of life insurance or a burial plot held in perpetuity, as a kind of human right or consumer good. But, above all, in crediting people with placing their hope only in the visible proofs of their existence: by imputing this plaster-saint realism to them, one takes them for naive and feeble-minded. In their defence, it has to be said that the propagandists of reality vent that contempt on themselves first of all, reducing their own lives to an accumulation of facts and evidence, causes and effects. Well-ordered resentment always begins at home.”

“At the end of the day, the argument between spirituality and about spirituality, is all against the nature of spirituality. In arguing spirituality, we go against its very nature. The important question: “Am I being kind in what I am saying/doing”? And that is all. In all truth, to eat an ice cream cone and to smile with the joy of a child, is about a billion times more spiritual of an activity, than to discuss views about spirituality. The experience of innocence; the experience of joy—this edifies ourselves and others. And that is spirituality. An ice cream cone can be the most spiritual object in the universe, at any given time.”

“Ennek a földnek a lakói az én népem. Már nem egyszerű szatrapa vagyok, nem helytartó más birtokán: király vagyok. Ezek az emberek az enyémek. Megölni ezer embert a sajátjaim közül olyan volt, mintha kivágtam volna a testemből egy darabot. De a rákos daganatot ki kell vágni. Én vagyok az ország. Az én embereim művelik ezt a földet, és az én örömömre termelnek. Védelmezem őket és gondoskodom róluk, amiért cserébe beszolgáltatják a termények egy részét és néhány fiukat. Akik nem így tesznek, azok lázadók, árulók, tolvajok, eretnekek és hitszegők. Megszegik a szent egyezséget. Velem szembeszállni annyi, mint szembeszállni az isteni renddel. Ezt meg kellett tennem, mert az apám nem tette meg. Ha felakasztott volna fél tucat polgármestert, amikor először tagadták meg az újoncozást, akkor az az ezer ember ma is élne. Gyenge volt, és azt akarta, hogy szeressék. Senki sem fogja elismerni, amíg élek, de az ezer rektoni legyilkolásával sokkal több életet mentettem meg. Ezt jelenti királynak lenni.”