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Words Less Spoken: Jesus & Buddha
The West has made an art form of the individual person; it is one of our gifts to civilization, but we have paid a big price for this gift. Because of our over-identification with the self, we overemphasize our separateness and uniqueness, remaining trapped and alone. (Even Christians usually seek…
Among everything in The Master trailer, this image struck me the hardest. Not that a gif out of context does it anything close to justice, but in this moment, I went “whoa”.
"You are the same as everybody else in the sense that your troubles are the same, your problems are the same, you’ve got your blessings, you’ve got your sins, you’ve got the things you can do well, you’ve got the things you fuck up all the time. And so you’re a conduit. There was a series of elements in your life—some that were blessings, and some that were just chaotic curses—that set fire to you in a certain way."
- Bruce Springsteen from an interview in the New Yorker (via wordslessspoken)
