Crown of Thorns

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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.

Quotes from Outside the New Message from God

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

e. e. cummings