The Invisibility Cloak

This is a disconcerting, almost dizzying thought: we’re left thinking not how a child can be so foolish as to imagine that they vanish by hiding their eyes, but rather, how extraordinary it is that the self is not located from birth in the physical body –

The invisibility at the heart of things was traditionally named the deus absconditus, the “concealed god,” that could be spoken of only in images, metaphors, and paradoxical conundrums, gems of immense worth buried within giant mountains, sparks that contain the flammable force of wildfire. The most important, said this tradition, is always the lea

If no amount of veiling can conceal the veiling itself, the issue is how far we will go in our seriousness at self-veiling, and how far we will go to have others act in complicity with us.

In the process, we’ve turned something that was beautiful—the inner self—into something we despise: the Shadow. It may seem like the worst part of us, but really, it’s the doorway to the inner self. Only when that doorway is open can we truly express ourselves.