funny, it's quite often the other way around; most of the xian mystics (or most other various religious figures) i've read about turned to a spiritual life AFTER they realized how fucked the world is -- that is to say, how cruel and materialistic, seeing it's ugly "true nature" -- and hardly did so from a naive standpoint.
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Date: 2010-01-29 07:06 am (UTC)