“Gaia lure” from Greek mythology and Samsara are two words for the same thing, namely attachment to the world of phenomena.

“Our lives seem to live us, to posess their own bizarre momentum, to carry us away; in the end we feel we have no choice or control over them. Of course we feel bad about this sometimes, we have nightmares and wake up in sweat, wondering: “What am I doing with my life?” But our fear only last until breakfast time, out comes the briefcase, and back we go to where we started.[…]

“Sometimes I think that the greatest achievement of modern culture is its brilliant selling of samsara and its barren distractions. Modern society