This is a tough one.

Having been trained in Zen for a few years, one can come to learn that they are both infinitely important and simultaneously infinitely meaningless. The flaw, perhaps, in this narcissistic worldview that you speak of is the imbalance. It's fine to understand that you are the center of the universe, but also that everyone else is, too, and even bugs and blades of grass and grains of mud, also. There is a transcendent moment that is very powerful in modern man when he learns to use his ears as much as his mouth.

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@shayne