We filled slowly, languidly into the hall. The auditorium was vast and silent. As we seated and were darnkened, the voice continued:
'The program for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through, you've seen your birth, your life, your death, you might recall all of the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?'
Is everybody in? Is everybody in?! Everybody in......?The ceremony is about to begin...
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of God. Wandering, wandering, in hopeless night...
Out here, in the perimeter, there are no stars...
Out here we is stoned... Immaculate!"
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"HEY!!! I'M THE LIZARD KING! I CAN DO ANYTHING!
Come on, raise your hands if you understand!
Let's take a poll:
How many of you people know you're alive?
BULLSHIT!
You're plastic soldiers in a miniature dirt war!
Come on! How many of you people know you're alive?
How many of you people know you're really alive?"
"Close your eyes... You see the snake? See the serpent appear? Ten feet long and five feet wide. It has one red eye and one green eye. It's seven miles long... Deadly.
See it. All the history of the world is on its scales. All people, allactions... We're just little pictures on its scales. Its big! It's moving! Devouring consciousness. Digesting power. Monster of energy. It's a monster.
Kiss the snake on the tongue. Kiss the serpent... But if it senses fear, it will eat us instantly. But if we kiss it without fear, it will take us through the garden. Through the gate. To the other side.
Ride the snake till the end of time."
See it. All the history of the world is on its scales. All people, allactions... We're just little pictures on its scales. Its big! It's moving! Devouring consciousness. Digesting power. Monster of energy. It's a monster.
Kiss the snake on the tongue. Kiss the serpent... But if it senses fear, it will eat us instantly. But if we kiss it without fear, it will take us through the garden. Through the gate. To the other side.
Ride the snake till the end of time."
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“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.”
“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 and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.”
