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.
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.
The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
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