If a book were a womb, I would be filled by David R. Loy's pages.

One quote that I was perturbedly awakened by was Loy's observation of the condition of lack that we have created a gyre of systems around—that we are not enough or need improvement. From the comparing hand of weighing lefts and rights, wrongs and rights, and what's pretty and ugly. What "deserves" our attention when we all have the need for respect, love, care, and attenion.

"We experience this deep sense of lack as the feeling that “there is something wrong with me.” To the extent that we have a sense of autonomous self, we also have this sense of lack, but it manifests itself in many different forms and we respond to it in many different ways."