“…Something like a paradigm shift is emerging in Western society, a movement away from the whole rationalistic, macho, goal-directed take on human nature that we inherit from the Enlightenment . Towards what exactly? Something much more fluid and adaptive, and something which makes much more use of the unconscious. But there is a ‘good’ and a ‘bad’ way of drifting your way through life : indeed the aim of one of the world’s most important philosophies, Taoism, is to teach — or rather encourage — the ‘good’ way of drifting.”
Sebastian Hayes