I'm The Result Of Upbringing,

Character Forms A Life Regardless Of How Obscurely That Life Is Lived And How Little Light Falls On It From The Stars.

Of Course, A Culture As Manically And Massively Materialistic As Ours Creates Materialistic Behavior In Its People, Especially In Those People Who've Been Subjected To Nothing But The Destruction Of Imagination That This Culture Calls Education, The Destruction Of Autonomy It Calls Work, And The Destruction Of Activity It Calls Entertainment.

The Self Divided Is Precisely Where The Self Is Authentically Located. . . We All Have Identity Crises Because A Single Identity Is A Delusion Of The Monotheistic Mind. . . Authenticity Is In The Illusion, Playing It, Seeing Through It From Within As We Play It, Like An Actor Who Sees Through His Mask And Can Only See In This Way.

I Am Not Caused By My History-my Parents, My Childhood And Development. These Are Mirrors In Which I May Catch Glimpses Of My Image.

As Plotinus Tells Us, We Elected The Body, The Parents, The Place, And The Circumstances That Suited The Soul And That, As The Myth Says, Belongs To Its Necessity.