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.
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.
Desperate times breed desperate measures
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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