Another way of saying it

Because we feel cut off from all of life, our relationship to the world is characterized by desire.
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We often feel that something is missing
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If only we could get what is missing from the outside, then we could relax.
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This is the very mind-set that propels the global economy.
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This is how it is possible to sell more and more stuff to more and more people. ...
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While this sense of lack may sometimes be caused by real hardship
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Most human beings live in ‘psychological lack’
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A feeling that they need more money
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More things
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More power over more people
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More sexual partners in a greater variety of positions.
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They just need more.
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Then they can relax
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In every culture and in every age, a few isolated individuals have broken free of this hallucination 
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They have realized that the sense of a ‘separate me’ is actually a fantasy. ...
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The sense of a separate entity that craves and needs things from its environment starts to melt like a snowflake in the sunshine.
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In its place is recognized consciousness, presence, a causeless love that lacks nothing at all.
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Rather than being on this planet ‘to get more for me,’ life becomes a flow of generosity of spirit.
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The reason to be alive is to bless
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To love without restraint
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To give irrationally. 
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(Braden et al., 229-31)
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Arjuna Ardagh