“Despair is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality — it is a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.”
~ Philip Slater
When does despair finally kick in? Some of us don’t dispense with the fantasy of having the life we’ve felt entitled to, expected, or pursued endlessly, until every door “seems” to close on us. And then we are left with a barren reality, which may be another illusion, like a room of windowless walls that keep us trapped within an even deeper sense of despair.
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