The more intuitive you are, the spookier your world is.
Not more frightening--but more mysterious: & more
inhabited.

Suffering corrupts; unavoidable suffering corrupts
unavoidably... After i am dead, where will be the pain i
endured? Nowhere. Only the crippled work will remain.
Do i want that? I wouldn't want it done to my children.
I would want them beautiful & complete. (I would send
them to a better place if i could. Art as that better
place.)

If ideas are tools, we choose ours by the picturesqueness
of the rust encrusting them.

Is not fashion, propaganda without content?

The child makes the ritual, the child disbelieves the ritual
(unmakes it)--two powers denied to normal adults.

Initiation is to discipline. Even ego-death is an initiation
into the mysteries of ego crafting. Techniques are
natural initiations. Tests are artificial initiations. ...Love
is a mixture of the two.