Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost. Thomas Merton Zoom with [[Walter Cecchini]] anahata ... [unstruck sound](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anahata) kiai ki energy