Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
Interpretation
The quote celebrates the extraordinary and profound kindness that comes from the soul, highlighting a beautiful aspect of human nature.
Allen Ginsberg's quote reflects a deep appreciation for the unique and radiant kindness that can emerge from one's inner self. By using exuberant adjectives like 'supernatural,' 'extra brilliant,' and 'intelligent,' Ginsberg elevates kindness to a metaphysical level, suggesting that such qualities are not merely ordinary traits but extraordinary aspects of the human experience that enrich our lives and the world around us.
In practice
During a speech on kindness at a community event.
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.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.
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