illusion ~

We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is.
Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us
to ‘see’ the world and construe it in the ‘right’ way. These
others label the world, attach names and give voices to the
beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read
the world in any other language or hear it saying other things
to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we
become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting
the world speak to us in new voices and write all its
possible meanings in the new book of our existence.
Be careful in your choice of hypnotists.


~ Sidney Jourard




photo: Ouarzazate ~ the door of the desert ~ Southern Morocco.