MASQUERADE: Remove the masks to be free and embrace our light
The following is an excerpt from The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness, by Jacqueline Ripstein * * “The world is a theater curtain behind which they hide the deepest secrets.” Rabindranath Tagore * * * * * Life is a grand stage where humans appear. Seconds and minutes pass, turning into years. Civilizations leave their footprints. Every action we make leaves an energetic print. We are actors and actresses in the great theatre of life itself. Tragedy and comedy are opposites, and we are here to experience it all. We are eternal students because knowledge is so vast. Teachers continue being students. We are the directors, producers, and actors in the stage of our life. The wardrobe changes, but the performance and feelings of the human being remain the same. Life is a tragedy for those who prolong suffering. And comedy for those who smile and rise above trials and dare to be brilliant. Stop repeating painful life lessons: learn the lesson and move on… We are here to discover the reality of love… Love needs no mask. Let the show begin—the tragedy, the comedy, the melodrama… All are episodes in the great theatre of life. This lesson will help you identify more clearly our illusory world and the ego’s many identities. It will help us expose our masks, discovering that behind all masks we often find fear and confusion. Without their shield we expose the real us. There is a very fine line that separates laughter and sorrow, comedy and tragedy, pain and suffering. To discover that line is part of our task. We mask ourselves as a means of protection—to conceal our fear of rejection and other painful feelings. Many [...]