"The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction"
"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise"
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise"
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
~William Blake
Conscious teachings are often paradoxes.
These quotes lead the mind away from justifying lateral thinking.
The first quote reminds me of Jesus' "love thine enemy."
The recognition of ones own I's and non identification
with others would have to include the third force of being present;
a non mechanical response to life.
The second quote suggests to me
recurrence and unnecessary suffering.
Suffering can only make us wise if we bear it and
let it into our being and understand it.
Rilke said that, "Every angel was terrible."
In a sense he was transforming himself above life's traumas,
handing his suffering to the higher and accepting the play.
The third quote is,a road and a "palace".
The road is life and so much takes place there.
We could even stop on the way and build a house and stay there.
Again, the third force is self remembering, real seeing.
To be on the road is fine, as long as we do not
imagine we really live there.
imagine we really live there.
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