"We constantly produce a display, a theatrical scene. For each situation we create the appropriate backdrop and the appropriate lighting. We also have the appropriate actors, mainly ourselves, who appear on the stage. We carry on this kind of play, this theatrical game, so to speak, to feel out the total effect our stage set is having."
-Chogyam Trungpa

A place for the discussion of illusion, delusion, spiritual materialism, creation of personality, destruction and transformation of personality, magic, magick, funhouses, tricksters, labyrinths and carnivals of all sorts...mostly in relation to the growth and evolution of our inner and outer selves.

Essentially, a place to wonder about the masquerade of daily living...for the play we put on for ourselves and others.
(Wasn't that a wonderfully theatrical summation?)

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“Be slow to agree or disagree.”
-The Thomasine Illuminists

"Tao that is displayed is not Tao"
-Chang Tzu

"It's easy to be tempted away from your path under the illusion that you are finding it. But as [Austin Osman] Spare said, 'it was the straying that found the path direct'."
-Joel Biroco

"Few are those who see with their own eyes,
and feel with their own hearts."

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods".
-Albert Einstein

"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is steadily subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected. It is, moreover, liable to burst forth in a moment of unawareness."
-Carl Jung

and on a related note...
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable, and therefore, not popular.
-Carl Jung

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

"I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword"
-Jesus Christ

"The highest truth cannot be put into words. Therefore the greatest teacher has nothing to say.
He simply gives himself in service, and never worries."
-Lao Tzu

"Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft."
-Baz Luhrmann

" To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. "
-George Orwell

“If you’re studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all… but philosophy, you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.” - Steve Martin

"Blessed is the day when your world shatters for you can see your future beckoning from behind the ruins." - Ingrid Coffin