"Our modern civilization is essentially individualistic and self-assertive, even our educational systems being more and more designed to foster 'self-expression' and 'self-realization' [...] On the other hand, in the words of Meister Eckhart, 'Holy scripture cries aloud for freedom from self. In this unanimous and universal teaching, which affirms an absolute liberty and autonomy, spatial and temporal, attainable as well here and now as anywhere else, this treasured 'personality' of ours is at once a prison and a fallacy." - 'Akimcañña: Self-Naughting', A.K. Coomaraswamy, 1п. 88-9.
