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To quote the Aleph, “The Path to Peace appears to be a fight, but it isn’t. It’s the art of filling up what is missing and emptying out what is superfluous.”

Perhaps in the way that a mind must be meticulously cared for and organized. In sleep, experts say that we unconsciously filter out that which is irrelevant, unnecessary, even painful; we lock up the superfluous in tiny compartments of the brain that may or may not have a key that fits with their keyhole.  We wipe away the old to make room for the new, trying to register what is important and what is not.

So, too, the soul should be tended, spading out evil like the snarling weeds of a the heart’s garden, an evil that laces the rosebushes like vile tendril arms, like chokers. And like tending a garden, it is a continuous task; you can’t weed the soil one season and expect to stay clean forever; in a number of days, if not hours, the green shoots of temptation will pop up their heads and glare at you once again, and then out comes the spade, the sword.

~Angreek87