The mirror image of suffering is the truth. Try it. Change the story. Change the course of your entire history. Right now.” “You want me to lie about my past?” Diana wipes tears from her face with the back of her hand. “No, to tell the story a truer way, ” says Herself. “Any story can be told infinite ways, dear, but listen to me. Listen well. If a story liberates your soul, believe it. But if a story imprisons you, believe its mirror image. .Martha N. Beck
About This Quote
Diana, the most famous of all the Amazons, is speaking through her mirror-self to Herself. Diana’s mirror is the story of her life, which is being written by someone else. This is a profound concept that has been explored in literature by writers such as William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Tao Lin. This idea is that you have two choices in life: You can live according to your own truth or you can live according to someone else’s.
This idea is also one that we all must deal with on a daily basis. While we do not want to be constrained by other people’s beliefs and opinions we do not want to be completely free and unrestrained and unrealistic either. Some people will always hold an opinion about us and we may never truly know the absolute truth about another person.
We can only create our own truth by living out our true stories until the end of time, no matter how much those around us may disagree with those stories.
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