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Why is it that so many Orientals through so many centuries have showed in their religions and metaphysics a desire for being dissolved in the vast mass of life, being, and consciousness, where all personal identity vanishes--a desire which is so often to be found in their intellectual and religious history that it seems to amount to a kind of infatuation and obsession?

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 207