"MAN IS SELF-DIVIDED
Man yearns to get rid of his pains and yet loves his pains for they make
him the centre of his own attention. He seeks help in finding himself and
yet rejects help because his vanity will not admit his misery. He wants to
succeed in public affairs and yet does not want to succeed for he dimly
senses the emptiness of public praise.
His agonizing contradictions are the result of his dualism, of his inner
split. In other words, there are two opposing forces within him, one
dominating him one moment and the other taking him over the next moment.
These forces cease to act as _opposing_ forces when he stops choosing one
side against another. For example, when fully realizing the folly of human
praise he no longer chooses it, and is therefore free from the anxiety of
not hearing applause."
Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, p. 130 (Previous version)
p. 124 (Current version)