“You consider yourself odd at times, you accuse yourself of taking a road different from most people. You have to unlearn that. Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak, surrender to them, don’t ask first whether it’s permitted or would please your teachers or father, or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.”
— Hermann Hesse, Demian
Breaking away from convention is never easy. There are so many messages around us from childhood telling us that we need to conform in thought, word and deed and not wander too far astray from the herd. Yet as I’ve discussed in the last few days, it is a myth that any two people think and act exactly alike or even believe in the exact same things. When we believe otherwise and spend our lives trying to fit into a common cold, cognitive dissonance arises and builds. The more we try to fit in the stronger the dissonance becomes until our mental, physical and spiritual beings suffer. Not to mention the rising cost on society itself as it becomes sicker and sicker. It is only by breaking away and embracing our uniqueness, despite what our religions, our schools, our media and our politicians tell us to do that we can start to discover what true health means.
Blessings, G
“I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian
I’m comfortable here in my dreams. I know most of the beings who hang out, the fears and insecurities, the monsters under my bed i know by name and play cards with them. My hopes, they may play hide and seek but they’re here and the best wardrobe closet i can think of…. (even that pirate shirt I lost in reality)
And the people… people I’ve known or will know, people who only show up there…and yes sometimes when I am lucky or feel more lucid than others…I can actually see the road between dream and reality and step by step turn one into the other.
Blessings, G
Sitting by the Canal by G A Rosenberg 
Fear Her (Beleth) by G A Rosenberg 
