Reflection

Hermetic Library fellow Beth Kimbell has posted about sacrifice necessary to follow one’s bliss at “Reflection“.

“As Thelemites, it is incubant upon us to seek that, and when we find it, to do that thing and not the myriad other amusements that tempt us from our path. We spend years in self-reflection trying to determine what this bliss is, sometimes catching glimpses, impressions, or feelings of that next step which will bring us closer to our goal.

In all that time, have you asked yourself what price you are willing to pay? Will you sacrifice the love and companionship of friends or family that actively work against your goal? Will you spend the years of effort, eschewing the quick and easy rewards, for your ultimate goal? Will you cast the dice, gambling your comfortable existence to answer the call of your soul?” [via]

Consider also:

  1. The N.O.T.H.I.N.G. Machine
  2. Side by Side
  3. “I never felt the need to choose, but I could never be completely open in the restrictive, old-fashioned Christian world I inhabited.”
  4. “To pretend to be someone else, to restrict yourself from the natural expression of your love is true sin to us.”
  5. “I grew up believing in the inherent goodness of humans, and that religion was the crutch they used to get through life without accepting true responsibility for their actions.”