" Take a look at the people around you. Is there a single person among them who hasn’t become addicted to those worldly feelings? Is there a single person who is not controlled by them, hungering for them, spending every minute of their waking life consciously or unconsciously seeking them? When you see this, you will understand how people attempt to gain the world and, in the process, lose their soul. For they live empty, soulless lives. "

― Anthony de Mello , Stop Fixing Yourself: Wake Up, All Is Well