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" I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as a person.
Recognition of such emptiness therefore liberates one to change and transform oneself. And this, it seems, is precisely what the Jungian theory of individuation describes, yet in a language that is affirmative rather than negative. "

Stephen Batchelor , Confession of a Buddhist Atheist


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Stephen Batchelor quote : I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity as a person.<br />Recognition of such emptiness therefore liberates one to change and transform oneself. And this, it seems, is precisely what the Jungian theory of individuation describes, yet in a language that is affirmative rather than negative.