The Eye of the Heart

Hohelied der Liebe · Lacrimosa

Osbourne in 1970

You've got to believe in yourself Or no one will believe in you Imagination like a bird on the wing Flying free for you to use ~ Believer

“I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about. I'm always working on trying to better myself, you know? I think that is an ongoing thing with me. I think I'll do that for the rest of my life. I'm always thinking of what I can do today to better my life.”

~ Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy was actually a remarkably kind and loving human being, a true gentleman, with a little madness mixed into the whole thing. By all accounts, he was deeply caring toward his family and the people around him. The great tragedy of his life was his struggle with drugs and alcohol, which at times nearly destroyed him.

Yet somehow, against all odds, he survived what would have ended the lives of many others. He lived to an old age, remained devoted to his wife, and became a loving father and grandfather.

British author Colin Wilson sitting underneath a tree wrapped in a sleeping bag, reading a book, London, 1956. 

“Like all artists, he (the Outsider) has moments when he seems to be in complete accord with the universe and himself, when, like Meursault, he feels that the universe and himself are of the same nature; then all life seems purposive, and his own miseries purposive. The rest of the time is a struggle to regain that insight. If there is an order in the universe, if he can sometimes perceive that order and feel himself completely in accord with it, then it must be seeable, touchable, so that it could be regained by some discipline. Art is only one form of such a discipline.”

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