5/ In today's view, everything appears to be geared toward securing the continuation of our reflection, all else be damned. The ancients knew better than this; their advice was in the form of riddles, pithy, abstruse commandments, rituals. They were questions more than answers.
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16/ The mirror offers no growth, no evolution, no transcendence; this, too, the ancients knew in some wordless, instinctive manner, and they would not tolerate a minute of the so-called elevated word-games of psychobabble we throw around today to make us feel smarter.
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17/ My beloved Henry Miller wrote “Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.” It is through chaos that one arrives at this certainty, and through giving up the ghost of that elusive mirror.
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@IntegralStory is of course, correct, in pointing out that I have omitted many aspects of the story of Narcissus in my using it in this impromptu thread. The actual myth itself is a subtler and more meaningful affair than what I portrayed, and is recommended to all.Show this thread
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The 'wisdom' of the body perpetuates the love of the mind for its past Creating a constant feedback loop Wherein the present is really the past A guru cannot offer change for what the individual must overcome Only bandaids with edges that leak The fruit of inner festeration.
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This hits the mark.
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