We’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us
JIM MORRISONEach generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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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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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding.
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I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.
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We cripple ourselves with lies.
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Blake 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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Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth.
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.
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People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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