"For the first time I stopped and thought, "What am I living for? What must I do to overcome this sense of emptiness?" This is a feeling which we all experience from time to time, only not as intensely. In a situation like that some people will change jobs, and some people just disappear. However, I set off in a completely different direction. The desire to seek after the ultimate awoke within me, and I began groping for an answer. That meant that I had to discard everything. Yes, everything that I had. It took great courage and faith, and great resolution."
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Chonoryoku: Himitsu no kaihatsu ho, p. 21, 1986, quoted in Shimazono 1995, p. 385
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Shoko Asahara
Shoko Asahara (March 2, 1955 ā July 6, 2018 born Chizuo Matsumoto, was a Japanese cult leader and terrorist who founded and led the doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo. He was convicted of masterminding the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and was also involved in several other crimes. Asahara was sentenced to death in 2004, and his final appeal failed in 2011. In June 2012, his execution was postponed due to further arrests of Aum members. He was ultimately executed along with other
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