A New Earth
As a result, they become more and more
alienated from themselves and others, more and more unhappy, more and
more dependent on their continuing popularity. Surrounded only by people
who feed their inflated self-image, they become incapable of genuine
relationships.
Albert Einstein, who was admired as almost superhuman and whose
fate it was to become one of the most famous people on the planet, never
identified with the image the collective mind had created of him. He
remained humble, egoless. In fact, he spoke of “a grotesque contradiction
between what people consider to be my achievements and abilities and the
reality of who I am and what I am capable of.”5
This is why it is hard for a famous person to be in a genuine
relationship with others. A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated
by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship,
there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in
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