From the second Steppenwolf passage Tamir reads. It warns that you can't pass through the Magic Theater 'as you are', because the personality gets in the way. The passage goes on to say that longing to escape reality is really a wish to be freed from one's 'so-called personality'.
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Tonight at the Magic Theater, for madmen only, price of admittance, your mind, not for everybody.
An integrated person is not a person who simply eliminated the sense of guilt or the sense of anxiety from his life. He's a person who feels all these things but has no recrimination against himself for feeling them.
Everything was unchanged... and at the same time everything had changed.
Nothing in this life should be taken at face value.
When you find out your existential kink and everyone's existential kink, it's no longer dark. It becomes fun. You can play with it because now you see yourself and you're not owned by that shadow any longer.
We are actually oftentimes, and I would say all of the time, the root cause of our own suffering. And I would take it a step even further to say that we actually get off on our own suffering.