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Some people can walk away from a relationship, but they are so bound to their ideas, their beliefs or their assumptions that they are not free to leave them. This is what it means to wear a crown of thorns. This is when the mind is a crown of thorns. You wear it, but it torments you. It seems to give you a kingly title, but in fact it is a harness of misery. It seems to elevate you and give you stature in the world, but in fact it cuts you and hurts you, binds you and mocks you.  
 
Some people can walk away from a relationship, but they are so bound to their ideas, their beliefs or their assumptions that they are not free to leave them. This is what it means to wear a crown of thorns. This is when the mind is a crown of thorns. You wear it, but it torments you. It seems to give you a kingly title, but in fact it is a harness of misery. It seems to elevate you and give you stature in the world, but in fact it cuts you and hurts you, binds you and mocks you.  
 
*[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php ''Greater Community Spirituality''] chap. 14, p. 171
 
*[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php ''Greater Community Spirituality''] chap. 14, p. 171
== Quotes from Outside the New Message from God ==
 
<nowiki>what Got him was Noth
 
ing & nothing's exAct
 
ly what any one Living
 
(or some
 
body
 
Dead like even a Poet)could
 
hardly express what
 
i Mean is
 
what knocked him over Wasn't
 
(for instance)the Knowing your
 
 
whole(yes god
 
 
damned)life is a Flop or even
 
to
 
Feel how
 
Everything(dreamed
 
& hoped &
 
prayed for
 
months & weeks & days & years
 
& nights &
 
forever)is Less Than
 
Nothing(which would have been
 
 
Something)what got him was nothing</nowiki>
 
e. e. cummings
 

Revision as of 16:05, 24 November 2011

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[T]he crown of thorns that you wear ... represents your attempt at fulfillment in the world.

Great effort is exerted in building things that can fall apart in a moment, things that have no stability or permanence.

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Some people can walk away from a relationship, but they are so bound to their ideas, their beliefs or their assumptions that they are not free to leave them. This is what it means to wear a crown of thorns. This is when the mind is a crown of thorns. You wear it, but it torments you. It seems to give you a kingly title, but in fact it is a harness of misery. It seems to elevate you and give you stature in the world, but in fact it cuts you and hurts you, binds you and mocks you.