If there is any beauty in my voice let it point to You
If there is any beauty in my limbs let it point to You
If there is any beauty in my face let it point to You
For as long as it is with me
A belief in radical alterity is necessary to stop seeking control. If one thinks that their mind can reside in every man then they will try to control the mind of every man.
Everything was under his power, so he served.
He was the light of life, so he hid.
When the crowd tried to crown him, the prince of peace fled.
In him was the way of eternal life, so he died.
“If I were to die, surrounded by cold mountains, unknown to the world, repudiated by my own people, my strength at last exhausted, the sea would at the final moment fill my cell, come to raise me above myself and help me die without hatred.”
— Albert Camus