Bound yourself with frames! That there is much to do means only that there is much to complete! At our best, we are a hungry species. The secret to a life well-lived is in the correct but extensive expenditure of energy! Yes, and when you do this, you will realize: what an incomparable blessing it is to have much on our plate. Give me those caresses, a life of finishing touches! One after another! And, somehow, yet another still!
Bound yourself with the frame that best serves you. Let it be odd-shaped if odd-shaped be the vision of your honest presentation to life and the universe! Give what is your best offering, not just what is most symmetrical! What is a frame but a kind of wrapping? Oh Lord, my rough edges are dangerous but honestly spoken. Dangerous, that is, only to me—that is the secret of honesty. Self-knowledge is to know how to avoid the rusty nails that might lie upturned in one or two spots of your life’s carpeting.
The frame is at your behest, your servant, the servant of your self-presentation, and it’s not an act. Not performing but living, the distinction is vital! An honest exhibition before God. And we need the idea of God because it does away with the guilt of acting out in selfishness before the void, as just another identified body preening for attention before the scrolling masses.
Honesty is the precipitation of true belief. Faith pours clear explanations. Pours something utterly open, good, in tune with life, in tune with the universe. Fellow anti-materialists, let us have the courage to reclaim the word God! Let us ask, what right do today’s churches have to use it—too often they are in the service of politics, or worse, social trends!
Wisdom of self begins by identifying the non-negotiables any prospective frame must work around. Honesty of self means having the courage not to sand them down after identification. But don’t leave anything on the table undone; believe it in your soul, a frame awaits!