
…. What does that mean? It means that, as individuals, they were both differentiated and integrated. They were differentiated because they had taken it on themselves to navigate the abundance of the world and expose themselves to it, making them a unique amalgamation of the different things they had absorbed and experienced; they were integrated because they had also done the work to make sense of this diverse absorption into a coherent whole.
… Now, the fact that we have more and more isn’t bad in itself; abundance has its uses and benefits. The problem, however, is that if you don’t know how to manage all of this, which most us haven’t learned to do, then the mind is spending so much of its time in conflict with itself that it doesn’t have any energy left to do what it truly wants beneath the clouds of uncertainty that balloon to the surface.