Beyond All Thresholds

No longer can I afford

The Endless Debauchery.

I must tear up my roots.

I must cease to be a tree.

I should rather become

The hawk that spiraling, soars

Beyond the imposition of rooms,

Of labyrinths, mirrors... doors.

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Yet the paradox of liberation

Is that it requires limitation.

Thoughts carefully selected

Inspire actions, a life corrected.

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This then is the song of the brave:

To be one's own master

Rather than everyone's slave.

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This then is the craziest dream:

To reject appearances

And become what we seem.

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"The question of normality in a person is usually decided on the basis of how similar his personality characteristics are, both in frequency and in force, to those psychosomatic processes most often encountered in a given society. The most frequent and thus "normal" traits express themselves in the following norms: practical rather than theoretical intelligence, predominantly egocentric rather than alterocentric attitudes toward society, and preponderance of the self-preservation, sexual, exploratory, and social instincts. These traits are commonly in compliance with group thinking and behavior and are often accompanied by minor, "safe" dishonesty. Such a group of "normal" traits in a person should, according to many, allow us to describe him as mentally healthy. Can we agree? No. This formulation is humiliating to mankind; a more suitable definition of mental health must contain, besides average values, exemplary ones."

-Kazimierz Dobrowski, "Positive Disintegration"

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