The only solution is to confront them – confront yourself – with the greatest fear imaginable.
JIM MORRISONBlake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’
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A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he’s been taught—all society’s brainwashing.
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I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But it’s ironic.
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Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality…
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I wonder why people like to believe I’m high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?
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Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you?
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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Everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains.
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I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can’t drag people through.
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How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.
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We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
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And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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