Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are — Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are — Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are — Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are — Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are — Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
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Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are no more human than a driver is the car he is driving. You would never go to a junkyard to look for the driver would you?

— Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
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