This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.
Interpretation
The quote suggests a deep connection between the material world and a higher spiritual reality, emphasizing their unity.
Allen Ginsberg's quote reflects a profound understanding of existence, suggesting that the physical world we inhabit is not separate from a spiritual dimension. He posits that the totality of life and our experiences are interconnected, indicating that what we perceive in the material realm can also be understood as part of a higher cosmic order, where the divine and earthly realms are intertwined. This perspective invites readers to recognize the sacredness of their existence and the completeness of the universe they live in.
In practice
During a meditation workshop discussing the nature of reality.
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 I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.
that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
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