The neon sign from Steppenwolf, read aloud by Tamir. He compares it to the pitch you might give someone about to start a journey into the darkness of their own mind.
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You would be checked and blinded by it at every turn by what you are pleased to call your personality.
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.