Kiaora Fox > Kiaora's Quotes

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi , The Essential Rumi

“Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. 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. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
― Jim Morrison

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

“Where's your will to be weird?”
― Jim Morrison

“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”
― Jim Morrison

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
― jim morrison

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
― Jim Morrison

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
― Jim Morrison, Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971

“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever.”
― Jim Morrison

“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”
― Jim Morrison

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.”
― Jim Morrison

“There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.”
― Jim Morrison

“No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
― Jim Morrison

“Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.”
― Jim Morrison

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”
― Jim Morrison

“Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.”
― Jim Morrison

“Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss”
― Jim Morrison

“I pressed her thigh and death smiled”
― Jim Morrison

“Give me songs
to sing
and emerald dreams
to dream

and I'll give you love
unfolding.”
― Jim Morrison

“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”
― Jim Morrison

“No heavenly power will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
― Jim Morrison

“Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.”
― Nico

“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.”
― Jim Morrison

“Tell them you came, and saw, and looked
into my eyes and saw the shadow
of the guard receding.
Thoughts in time and out of season,
the hitchinker stood by the side of the road
and levelled his thumb in the
calm calculus of reason.

[...]
Why does my mind circle around you?
Why do planets wonder what it
would be like to be you?
All your soft wild promises were words,
birds, endlessly in flight.”
― Jim Morrison, Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1