This is a spiritual truth. We are all actors upon a stage, each with our entrances and our exits. But we can change our parts and our stage sets, too. For this reason, writers and artists and actors have long depicted the jesters, the clowns, the wardrobe changes, the masks, and the backgrounds. The goal is to see beyond the illusion, to know and recognize our true authentic inner selves. We must remove the cloaks, the skin, the clothing that covers us. We must drop our egos in complete surrender to the infinite wisdom and flow of energy that is the divine.
A great song depicting this is: Three Dog Night – The Show Must Go On (1974)
“The Show Must Go On”
Baby, although I chose this lonely life
It seems it’s strangling me now
All the wild men, big cigars, gigantic cars
They’re all laughing at me now
Oh, I’ve been used, ooh, used
I’ve been a fool, oh, what a fool
I broke all the rules, oh, yeah
But I must let the show go on
Baby, there’s an enormous crowd of people
They’re all after my blood
I wish maybe they’d tear down the walls of this theater
Let me out, let me out
Oh, I’m so blind, oh, I’m blind
I wasted time, wasted, wasted, wasted time
Walking on a wire, high wire
But I must let the show go on
Oh, I’m so blind, oh, I’m blind
I wasted time, wasted, wasted all too much time
Walking on a wire, high wire
But I must let the show go on
Baby, I wish you’d help me escape
Help me get away
Leave me outside my address
Far away from this masquerade
‘Cause I’ve been blind, oh, so blind
I wasted time, wasted, wasted all too much time
Walking on a wire, high wire
But I must let the show go
I must let the show go
I must let the show go on
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One, might even look to the lyrics of Hotel California:
Mirrors on the ceiling
The pink champagne on ice
And she said “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device”
And in the master’s chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can’t kill the beast
Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
“Relax,” said the night man
“We are programmed to receive
You can check-out any time you like
But you can never leave!”
That phrase in particular, would call one to think of the endless cycle of reincarnation. Especially the concept where we reach that higher plane and carefully help plan our next life to learn important lessons not yet learned in previous lifetimes, and to have opposite experiences to mend karmic debts or contribute to the whole for betterment.
Rebirth in Buddhism refers to its teaching that the actions of a person lead to a new existence after death, in endless cycles called saṃsāra. This cycle is considered to be dukkha, unsatisfactory and painful. The cycle stops only if liberation is achieved by insight and the extinguishing of desire. Rebirth is one of the foundational doctrines of Buddhism, along with Karma, nirvana and moksha. (wiki)
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