One by one, I took down the masks
behind which I hide
Flickr credit: MahPadilha
The psychotherapist
The blogger
The geek
The hospice volunteer
The thinker
The meditator
The woman
The poet
The mother
The wife
The daughter
And found nobody
To speak of.
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One sense of an interconnected being happy and sent to encourage that without faultering to a sense of being anything but a perfect means of peace.
ReplyDeleteI love that last line.
ReplyDeleteThe whole piece says so much more than it would without those 3 words.
Yep, you got it, Ian! :)
ReplyDeleteDeep bow to you.
Very nice post. Thank you Marguerite.
ReplyDeleteI want to try more Being Nobody, just peaceful. I find the internet so conducive to solidifying an identity. "I" want *credit* for that comment. Or what if "I" say the wrong thing, misinterpreted...so much selfing...grasping...dukkha.
Metta,
Anonymous (but not the same Anonymous who posted 06June... hmmm :-) )
Oh! how much I can relate to this whole business of "I" and need for validation, and the dukkha from self-centeredness . . . Way down by the roots of all cravings. Material things are nothing compared to the need for identity, and false security of solid I.
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