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Resources => Stories, Writings and Other Snippets [Public] => Topic started by: Jennifer- on July 30, 2006, 10:28:56 PM
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He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise
William Blake
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
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i'm glad you brought bill blake up, he's perhaps my all time fav - sometimes i thought i was his reincarnation. just the other day i heard he saved Thomas Pain's life by telling him "Go! Or you are a dead man!"
And on Pain, the father of the US constitution, how much is he still revered in US?
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I recently had a verse which had something to do with " doors of perception" it was strong in the front of my memory, like a song you cant seem to shake out.
Someone mentioned it sounded like something of William Blake. Have any idea what Im referring to? Ive always been a lover of his artwork.
I wouldnt be the one to ask in reguards to Thomas Pain, I take very little interest in our government or collective thought. The podium of spender is sickening to me.
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear
to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow
chinks of his cavern."
from William Blake's - The Marriage of Heaven and Earth
Also the title to Aldous Huxley's book, The Doors of Perception, - his experiences on mescaline - an amazing book - a real classic imo.
I would squint my eyes to try and see the same way - without the mescaline! Before I learned of gazing... :)
The full verse is:
"The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the
end of six thousand years is true. as I have heard from Hell.
For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to
leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation
will be consumed, and appear infinite. and holy whereas it now
appears finite & corrupt.
This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.
But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul, is to
be expunged; this I shall do, by printing in the infernal method, by
corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent
surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear
to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow
chinks of his cavern."
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (http://www2.kobe-c.ac.jp/~watanabe/blake/mhh.htm#p14)
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((((((((((Daphne!))))))))))))))
Yes! I believe thats it :)
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear
to man as it is: infinite.
The book sounds super interesting.. Im adding it to my list :) Im going to have a wonderful supply of winter reading this year!
Thank you, With Love, Raven
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