The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.  The Little Zen Companion

When conquest is achieved, the authority of the conqueror put an end to internal strife, and the social life-conception was justified. But this justification is only temporary. Internal feuds cease only when the pressure of authority is brought to bear with greater weight upon individuals formerly inimical to one another. The violence of the internal struggle, not annihilated by authority, is the offspring of authority itself. Authority is in the hands of men who, like all the rest, are ever ready to sacrifice the common weal if their own personal interests are at stake; with the sole difference that these men, encountering no resistance from the oppressed, are wholly subject to the corrupting influence of authority itself. The Kingdom of God is Within You

In each of us spirit has become form, in each of us the created being suffers, in each of us a redeemer is crucified. Demian

„Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.“ Le Pere Goriot