We repeat a narrative because specific sorts of pain and unfulfillment feel seductively familiar and because we privilege familiarity over happiness.

我们重复一个故事是因为特定类型的痛苦和不满足感让人感到非常熟悉，这种熟悉感是非常诱人的，因为我们把熟悉置于幸福之上。

What matters is that the underlying feelings of incompleteness, of fear, lack, and unfulfillment so characteristic of the egoic state are no longer there — or are they?

重要的是，小我状态所特有的不完整、恐惧、匮乏和不满足等潜在的感觉已经不存在了——或者它们是吗？