SAMSARA. Everything that you want, everything that you feel, everything you dare to desire.
Have no illusions; if you presume to pursue these desires,
you will suffer, be humiliated, ultimately destroyed.
But is it better to renounce it all,
to go silently into the night of self-denial, of submission and surrender?
To deny yourself passion, love and hate,
and to live out a sheltered, cautious half-life
in which you may laugh, but not all of your laughter,
and cry, but not all of your tears?

For those who brought us food when we were hungry, gave us shelter when we were homeless, offered us companionship when we were friendless, thank you.

i. recorded May 6, 1997, at the Sound Lab, in Greensboro, North Carolina
I.-IX. recorded April 23 to 30, 1997 at MARS studios in Cleveland, Ohio, engineered by Bill Korecky

Mastered in the Kitchen in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in late 1998

All songs plagiarized by Catharsis.