Jon wanted to have a cause, a purpose, and to feel needed by others. Bran wanted to climb to great heights and see all around him. Sansa wanted to marry a handsome prince and live in a castle. It can be said that Ned’s kids – and we’re including Jon Snow here – were forced to come face to face with a perverse, funhouse mirror-version of their own fondest wish. Remember, the best way to open a Thousand Doors for you is to concentrate on opening Doors for others.While all the Stark children have seen their respective worlds spiral into trauma and violence (or even their own death) following the King Robert’s fateful visit to Winterfell, Arya’s transformation over the years is arguably the most shocking. Remember to share this piece with others, or discuss it with them if it would ‘open a Door’ for them. Then naturally following on from this we realise that ‘all men must serve’. įirst we understand that ‘all men must die’. In High Valerian there is a reply, a recant that is always used in response to valar morghulis: Valar dohaeris. What a constant humbling, a dissolution of the ego, and a call back down to earth – reinforced in every encounter and embraced with warmth. Though what a reminder of the insignificance of our existence. Puzzling greeting isn’t it? More foreboding than ‘hi, how are you?’. The term is used amongst select characters within the Game of Thrones universe, often as a greeting. This thought is at first terrifying, at second, liberating. Maybe that’s what we all need – maybe then we will be able to become the person we should be, and stop trying to be the person we want to be. In Game of Thrones, when the Faceless Men become ‘No One’, they can wear any mask, change their face, and become anyone. My question, sprouting from the Minimum Viable Lifestyle is, ‘what’s the least your life can be?’ I’ll never ask you ‘what’s the most your life can be?’ It’s hardly inspiring writing from my part. The reality is that in a few centuries’ time, no one will know your name or mine.Īre you ok with the reality that you are no one? We cannot stop the rain, but we can manage and navigate it. How can you drive through the rain, without windscreen wipers?
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Would you concentrate on opening Doors for others? Would you stop playing short-term games, and start playing longer, infinite games? Would you look not to further your position or glory, but to further the cause that affects us all? Would you now be able to see the roadblocks, emotional and psychological, that have always chained you? How would you see differently, without the need to see yourself as a hero in the story? There is a beauty in that, a self-transcendence, of getting outside of ourselves and seeing more clearly. To me, there is some appeal in dissolving the ego, to drop the need for self-importance, and to see our lives more objectively as to how they fit in the grand scheme of things. What would it mean to truly become no one? To stop promoting ourselves ahead of our companions and neighbours? What are the advantages of becoming a Faceless Man?
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Monk-like apart from their bizarre habit of acting as paid hitmen that is. They abandon ideas of the individual and become quite monk-like. They discard their names and titles, their sense of self and every last trace of their identity. In her journeys she comes across Jaqen H’ghar, one of the Faceless Men, who has the ability to offer plenty of cryptic wisdom… oh, he can also shift identity and faces, kind of like Nicholas Cage in Face/Off.
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Martin’s book series A Song of Ice and Fire, Arya seeks vengeance against all the people who have wronged her and her family. In the hit HBO Series Game of Thrones, based of course off George R. For the rest, you’re about to be enlightened.Ī girl named Arya Stark from Winterfell. If you’re a Game of Thrones fan you’ll understand what Valhar morghulis means. Who are you? What are you? Where do you come from, and where are you going?