Behind the mask lies flesh, behind the flesh lies desire and fear, locked in a game, whose subtle dynamic is the whip of existence.

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Have you ever found something of yours that you made or wrote that your memory had not at all retained and when you do happen to stumble upon it it comes as a complete and shocking surprise, just like finding that there is yet an episode that you have not seen of a cherished series that you thought you had finished ( Read more... )

Atonement

Atone

At one

An act that brings you at one with another/God.

To lose your place, to lose your self and step forward into the place of another.

An act of tremendous loss of self, an act of balance after a great act of self, after a transgression.

This was the original meaning.

This is what it means, to atone.

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"That maladies nearly always appear in relation to the vocation of medicine men is not at all surprising. Like the sick man, the religious man is projected unto a vital plane that shows him the fundamental data of human existence, that is, solitude, danger, hostility of the surrounding world. But the primitive magician, the medicine man, or the ( Read more... )

A mistake is not in itself a critical moment, it is how we handle it and what we learn from it that is critical. Error always contains the potential to be a great teacher.

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Poor silly Oedipus... so proud of himself for solving the Sphinx's riddle without realising that the Sphinx herself was the riddle.

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Sometimes, things I see or things that I hear miss my flesh and hit my armour instead. But they do not bounce off... not anymore. Rather they slowly penetrate, like an acid, burning me at the most inopportune moments. This is a recent turn of events. It pleases me tremendously.

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It is humorous to observe that most of the people who speak about "thinking outside the box" were the ones who created the box in the first place.

There is no box. The box only exists within them, within their mind.

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Upon catching his reflection in the mirror, I wonder how often the monster stopped to consider that he looks like a monster precisely because he is, in fact, a monster.

Only monsters know well why monsters hide in shadows.

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How the bones ache cold that are birthing hot blood for a shattered heart.

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