Will Harrison
Will Harrison
dream police fantasy
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
creativity desire
What you desire you call into being ...
sex satisfaction collecting
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
evil faces dubious
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
mean feelings facts
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings ...
beautiful garden childhood
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
hate weight body
it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.
airplane thinking weight
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
food choices drug
Food is my drug of choice.
pain grief heart
Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.
believe belief music-is
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
faith understanding belief
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
dying embarrassment humiliation
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...
mistake past thinking
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.