I live in my dreams

 

 

 

"The things we see,” Pistorius said softly, “are the same things that are within us.

 There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people 

live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality 

and never allow the world within to assert itself. You can be happy that way.

 But once you know the other interpretation you no longer have the choice

 of following the crowd. Sinclair, the majority’s path

 is an easy one, ours is difficult."

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.

 What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” “Each of us has to find out

 for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. Forbidden for him.

It’s possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

 And vice versa.

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

excerpts from Damian 

 art by Alaira Bird

 

Demian is the story of a boy, Emil Sinclair, and his search for himself.

 Emil was raised in a good traditional home at the turn of the century 

in the young nation of Germany. His family is rather wealthy

 and they have a reputation as an upright, godly family.

 As a boy, Sinclair views the world within the walls of his home

 as representing all that is good, pure, innocent, and godly.

 But starting at a young age he feels a constant inner conflict between this world, 

which he refers to as the “world of light” and the outside world,

 or “forbidden realm” which represents sin, lowliness, deceit, and insecurity. 

And although his mother, father, and two sisters remain within the “world of light”,

 he constantly feels drawn to the outside realm and is in this way

 somewhat estranged from his family and their sphere of security.

 He ends up vacillating between both and not belonging to either

 

 comments by Susan Sontag from Art and Thoughts