Erom quod es, eris quod sum. You are what I once was, I am what you will become. This is a simple mantra that can be associated with reflection of the self. A self-imposed evolution of the soul with life becoming the gateway. I think it's the desire not to seek the true nature of things but to have a nature one can be true to. We can create our own reality, our own version, our own falsification for that what separates the black sheep from the white that's morally justifiable. Man can be an island but in an archipelagos!
You are what you write...
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Azatoth - Precisely. Very well summed up, so to speak.
This is the kind of perspective many folk lack these days. And its not from spiritual misguidance, or lack of resources to the sources - but lack of Will; lack of Passion. Apathy, plain and simple.
Some people think they are Theistic; but their regular worship, their daily rituals - are characteristically Apatheistic.
... but how does one follow Nietzsche's gnomic injunction to "become what they are," Writch wonders.
..To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion what one is ... The whole surface of consciousness - consciousness is a surface - must be kept clear of all great imperatives. Beware even of every great word, every great pose! So many dangers that the instinct comes too soon to "understand itself" - Meanwhile the organizing "idea" that is destined to rule keeps growing deep down ...
- from Ecce Homo, (trans. W. Kaufmann), p2 s9
Writch looks to writing, as he oft does: Does our writing facilitate a limit-experience that needs to convey true earnestness and sincerity in writing-for-art's-sake, or is our writing merely automatic writing from the Ghost In The Machine?
So, Writch asks: What dust motes of "Great Imperatives" have we got stuck on the Mirror of ourselves? Have we become so accustomed to the scum that we are confusing that superfluous layer with our own personally perceived image of ourselves or are at least some of us polishing our mirror regularly?
Are you? Reflect, and tell Writch how...