Jun 7, 2001
A very important moment in the work on oneself is... when a man begins to distinguish his personality and his essence. A man's individuality can grow only from his essence. It can be said that a man's individuality is his essence, grown up, mature. But in order to enable essence to grow up, it is first of all necessary to weaken the constant pressure of personality upon it, because the obstacles to the growth of essence are contained in personality. |