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It is natural for the ego to react negatively to its experiences when these bring loss or opposition. But this is so only when, as is most common, man is still unawakened, untaught, uncontrolled, and unable to enter into higher states of being.
-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 3 : Psyche > # 42