1. Separation Anxiety

The sense of being separate from his world, with an individual identity that is the product of a life history, pervades man’s existence, leading to his propensity for violence and his constant state of anxiety. Man’s history is his neurosis, and it is only by his transcending his sense of himself as a continuous object in time that man can become reunited with his world.

Anxiety is the experience of “becoming” while ecstasy is the experience of “being.” The struggle to “become” something different than what you are seduces you into a sense of self-loathing and regret, leading you to feel guilty for what you “have been” in the past and afraid of what you might “become” in the future. The sacredness of what you are “being” is lost in the illusion that you should “become” something else.

To be integrally intelligent means to be without the self.

J. Krishnamurti

So egotism has as its root in the cardinal necessity by which each individual persists to be what he is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson