The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.
It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
The world is starved for spiritual food.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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