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“The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The
challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world. The real danger was death by exposure.”
― Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph
challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world. The real danger was death by exposure.”
― Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph
“Death and the awful abode of lost souls, whither my weakness long ago had sent him, had changed him for every other eye but mine. And now I heard his voice, rising, swelling, thundering through the flaring light, and as I fell, the radiance increasing, increasing, poured over me in waves of flame. Then I sank into the depths, and I heard the King in Yellow whispering to my soul: "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!”
― The King in Yellow
― The King in Yellow
“We take in what helps us reconnect, and we let go of what no longer serves us. It’s a lesson our breath has been trying to show us our entire life: take in, let go, repeat.”
― I Wanna Be Well: How a Punk Found Peace and You Can Too
― I Wanna Be Well: How a Punk Found Peace and You Can Too
“Thank you, Mr. Simon, but what about God? It is reported that at one time you considered yourself to be God. Do you not think that to be rather blasphemous?"
No. I do think it is possible to be God for brief moments. I am certainly not God now.
"But surely, in your country, most people believe there is only one God?"
I think God is the composite creation of large numbers of people being good for a moment - the way football fans keep a steady glow going in a stadium because there is always someone lighting a match. If people stopped being good altogether God would vanish.”
― Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph
No. I do think it is possible to be God for brief moments. I am certainly not God now.
"But surely, in your country, most people believe there is only one God?"
I think God is the composite creation of large numbers of people being good for a moment - the way football fans keep a steady glow going in a stadium because there is always someone lighting a match. If people stopped being good altogether God would vanish.”
― Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph
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