Out of Separateness
SAMUEL SHENOVA
Identities are necessary until they’re not; until the holistic structure can be seen and internalized. From there, new desires arise, then new actions. And they won’t feel like desires or actions. They will lack their familiar impatience. Instead there will be a willing deliberateness, an intolerance for haste and ambition.
The lesson of identity is unity, isn’t it? The whole purpose is to lead you out of separateness and back to unity. To learn the value of bonding, the value of value but not for the proliferation of the identity, that was never ours to keep. But rather for its dissolution into something wider and more inclusive. It was separateness that birthed the identity to begin with, the way venom contains its own antidote.