Non-heroic minds consistently identify a faceless entity as the enemy; the pressures of Wall Street on financial advisors to over sell stock; a father’s attitude on one’s self-image; the Evil One’s overall influence on humanity, and most of all, consciousness’ casting about for who to blame for mistakes it is perceived to make.
Two of the better known ways people are taught to work on doing The Thing, are to remember yourself, and to forget yourself. There is, however a new secret one: to forget the self that tries to remember itself. (Most people always favor the old over anything new.)
The prosecutor’s face lit up with excitement as the leaped toward the defendant in the witness box and exclaimed: “Ah hah – a most unexpected move: using the truth as a defense!”
There is only one thing an enlightened man cannot understand…this sentence.
You know you are on Earth when art normally concerns things aberrant or offensive. It requires no creativity to act like a savage in a Seville Row. That is all that everybody else is already, they just do not flaunt it.
J.