Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the burdens of heightened awareness and understanding of life.
Allen Ginsberg's quote suggests that possessing a deep consciousness about the human experience can lead to existential fear and anxiety, especially as each new day begins with its uncertainties and challenges. It implies that awareness can be both a gift and a source of distress, as one confronts the realities of life and the weight of existence at each sunrise.
In practice
During a lecture on existential philosophy, this quote can be used to illustrate the theme of awareness and fear.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.
Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Sometime Iβll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.
God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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