Snakes Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they get sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out. We cannot destroy an old belief system while we are maintaining and defending it. That’s no different than arm wrestling with yourself. We discard the old by re-directing the energy that we are giving it. (D. H. Lawrence and Carson's Commentary)
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