"What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence."

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Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

— Matthieu Ricard