“A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.”
“Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense.”
“It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image – they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.”
~ Jim Morrison interviewed by Lizzie James, Creem Magazine.
It’s important to have at least one person with whom we can ‘show up as we are’, without having to pretend, fake it, posture, or perpetually apologize for our soft spots, blind spots, raw spots, or other beautiful, wabi-sabi/kintsukuroi vulnerabilities.
If we have such a friend, an anam cara to be sure, then we’re blessed. If we have more than one, we’re wealthy, indeed.
If we are such a one — who can be the sacred, safe, unconditionally loving space for others to show up true; and reflect back the beauty of who they are in all of their wabi-sabi selves — that’s quite a gift, quite a ‘medicine’ to be in this stormy time and stirred-up collective.
I also included some sharp, inspired insight from Jim Morrison in Free Your Heart & Mind, an earlier Sophia’s Children article. Read it here.
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July 9, 2016 at 3:36 pm
Jim was a huge influence for me when I was younger. I visited his grave in Paris the first time I traveled there. It was quite an experience.
July 11, 2016 at 5:41 pm
That’s pretty cool, Jeff … and those Parisian graveyards seem so much more interesting (for whatever reason). It’s interesting to visit with some of his deep and profound insights now, with the current Uranus-Pluto archetypal energies swirling up out of that Sixties ground (when they last danced cheek to cheek). Many of his insights are as timely now, which is interesting.
July 10, 2016 at 7:42 am
Brilliant, and very true, comments by Jim Morrison
July 11, 2016 at 2:59 pm
What is so true is we all need friends, true friends. This is an excellent reminder! <3