"What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression."

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I began to go into samadhi, not just occasionally, but every day many times a day until I reached a point where I could no longer distinguish between ordinary and non-ordinary reality. For me it is all the same. I am in a state of continuous absorption in the Self.

— Frederick Lenz