Petulant Rumblings

That someone should detest what we do, we tolerate, more or
less. But if someone disdains a book we have recommended to him,
that is much more serious, and it wounds us like an underhanded
attack. For then it is our taste that is called into question,
and even our discernment!

Via OMGBlog

Having opened an anthology of religious texts, I came straight off upon this remark of the Buddha: “No object is worth being desired.” I closed the book at once, for after that, what else is there to read?  The Lure of Disillusion.