"Take the case of a man who is suffering from a severe attack of what I might call ‘maleness’! He goes out to hunt for a female, and never realizes that his attitude renders him incapable of recognizing the charm and splendour of all the women he sees. They will provoke neither admiration nor inspiration in him, no impulse to create beauty, no desire to become a poet or a musician. On the contrary, he will go home depressed and in a rage of disappointment because he has not found the female he was looking for … Not to mention the state he would be in if he did find her, which might well be far worse! Nine tenths of humanity is like that, always hunting, always sighing and suffering, always with this sensation of emptiness and, in the meantime, seeing nothing of all the beauty and splendour that surrounds them. They are miserable to the point of suicide, full of hatred for everyone, simply because they lack a sense of true beauty."
— Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov in Love and Sexuality: Part Two (1900-1986)
(Source: predatorywaspobserver)
