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Saturday, October 14, 2023

The Dance Of Reality

Grateful Dead: Scarlet Begonias~~Fire on the Mountain...10/14/80

Sometimes in those moments of greatest abandonment when we feel utterly deserted a sign appears where we least expect it and shows us the way. Those who dare to advance into darkness, expecting nothing, will at last find their shining goal. On a page torn from a book, which an autumn wind blew around my feet, I read the words that showed me I was on the right path: "The initiate who sets out in good faith to find the Truth, only to find, on all sides, the inexorable barrier that throws him back into the ‘ordinary tumult,’ will hear the Master say: ‘Watch out, there is a wall.’ ‘But is this wall temporary?’ asks the restless soul, ‘can I pass through it or demolish it?
Is it an adversary? Is it a friend?’ ‘I cannot tell you.
You must discover it for yourself.”
--Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Dance of Reality
Estimated Prophet~~Terrapin~~Playing in the Band...10/14/80

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