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“People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to WalMart, so be it.”
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“This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal
all this pain is an illusion.”
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Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal
all this pain is an illusion.”
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“At some point, if you're lucky, you realize you're not the story. You're part of the story. The story is much bigger than you.”
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
“And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.”
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“music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.”
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
“If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. in order to survive you, I must first survive myself.
I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you, there's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you, there's no other choice. Im shameless now, im nameless now, im nothing now, im no one now but my soul must be iron 'cause my fear is naked
im naked and fearless and my fear is naked”
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I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you, there's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you, there's no other choice. Im shameless now, im nameless now, im nothing now, im no one now but my soul must be iron 'cause my fear is naked
im naked and fearless and my fear is naked”
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“Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.”
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“So crucify the ego, before it's far too late,
To leave behind this place so negative and blind
And cynical - and you will come to find that,
We are all one mind capable of
All that's imagined and all conceivable,
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through,
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason,
Before we pine away”
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To leave behind this place so negative and blind
And cynical - and you will come to find that,
We are all one mind capable of
All that's imagined and all conceivable,
Just let the light touch you
And let the words spill through,
And let them pass right through
Bringing out our hope and reason,
Before we pine away”
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“Something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety? How can this mean anything to me. If I really don't feel anything at all?”
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“If God is our father you thought, than Satan must be our cousin.”
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“Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.”
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“This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality
Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal
All this pain is an illusion”
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Embrace this moment, remember, we are eternal
All this pain is an illusion”
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“I listened for the whisper, of your sweet insanity.”
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“I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication.”
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No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication.”
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“Fuck smiley glad hands with hidden agendas.”
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“Threw you the obvious and you flew with it on your back,
A name in your recollection, down among a million same." - A Perfect Circle.”
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A name in your recollection, down among a million same." - A Perfect Circle.”
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“I may find peace with in the emptiness, how pitiful.”
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“Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers.”
― Schism Sheet Music
― Schism Sheet Music
“Behind all the dark humor, Bill was talking about the same things I’d read in Joseph Campbell. If you look at things, really look, if you lift the veil, you start to recognize that light is love, is infinite, is unconditional. Bill was saying that once you understand the nature of nature, you can let go of difficulties and sign on for the ride—knowing that it’s just a ride. And”
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
“So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing the tail of dogma. I opened my eye and there we were. So good to see you once again I thought that you were hiding from me. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing a trail of smoke and reason.”
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“Up until the mid twentieth century the mountain gorilla was considered a myth. Oddly enough, a legend not unlike bigfoot or the loch ness monster. The chance of actually seeing/experiencing this elusive shadow was as likely as finding ones soulmate. Rare. Precious. Even once discovered they seemed unapproachable. The only way to get close to this magnificent creature was to become empathetic. Abandon all pretense and preconceptions. To bare an open throat. To collapse into the arms of vulnerability. All but extinct, these beings/moments are threatened by the black hearted. The cold and oblivious. The empty eyed profit seekers that overlook these rare precious moments.”
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“I needed to get it out. It was that tipping point where you either become a serial killer or a rock star.”
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
“You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.”
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“Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.”
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“We will never know world peace, until three people can simultaneously look each other straight in the eye”
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“At some point, if you're lucky, you realize you're not the story you're part of the story. The story is much bigger than you.”
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
“You answer your own questions.”
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
“I'll keep digging, 'till I feel something.”
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“Boston has the most miserable winters in the world,” Maynard would recall. “It’s cold and wet and miserable and you start to read serial-killer books.”
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
― A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
“The problem with the music industry in general is that artists get into it because they have a desire to be desired and they have desire to scream their heads off for whatever issue happened to them in the past… They weren’t armed with proper tools to move through any trauma… What they do is scream their heads off. And at some point they get popular. Now they are part of the industry that is rum by people who are uneducated, emotional people. In the way it’s kinda dead-end in this society we expect those artists to continue screaming to the end of their days . If you don’t eventually feel better, I’m not sure how effective your screaming was and how your screaming will help somebody else… I didn’t necessary want to scream my whole life. If the songs don’t help me, how are they gonna help you?”
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