The Importance of History in Mediation

Ratsinger: I think one way to help people understand is because like, you know, it's really cool. It's an amazing idea. He says imagine turning 10 toddlers loose in a room with 10 toys in it. One of them will find a toy and the other one will become fixated on it. And before you know it, they might all be hovering around the same exact one. That can affect us at the level of desire because we're social creatures,. We're not autonomous independent entities that generate our own desires.