Two faces

The true man is two-faced to this extent: He plays the game alright but it doesn’t matter to him whether he wins or loses.

Unmasked

Heaven is not won, unless dropping the seed-shell of my public face is winning. Tennyson emerged from one of his trances to say that the loss of personality is the only true life.

RIP

It will not be missed when it finally expires, the insane idea that I cannot pull ahead unless someone else falls behind, that in order for me to win, someone has to lose.

Our steady state

Every emotion carries within itself the seed of its opposite. Because it’s a being-state and not an emotion, love has no opposite. Its first quality is stillness. It does not change. Or win.

Success

Intuitively, we know very well that we are subject to forces we cannot control and do not understand, and that we’re going to die soon. It’s why we don’t describe ourselves as finished products. It’s also why we squeeze a bit of succour from titles and corner offices.