Jim's words on pain and love are main guiders in my life to this very day.

I will keep it at that -- people can google that.

I can only be reminded that jim once said that "pain is meant to wake us up, but people fear death more than pain".

I think he also said that sex and love is total freedom liberation but I am not sure. as a sex symbol particularly in his younger years, circa 1967, but what are your views in relation to jim Morrison's. It would be good if you culd be more specific.

... striving here...

Okay, look. Being good looking, or even beautiful... I don't know maybe you are, on the outside.

And that's great. You get all sorts of looks all the time. In fact, you can do just about anything, anywhere.

But, that is never who one is.


Like money, it can be a curse, where one just kind of gives up.


The thing is not the outside beauty. Some could say that is common enough. I do not think it is, not at all... but
a different matter. The real thing is soul.


Who one is, inside. The person we live and die with. The person apart from money or looks or acclaim or peer
acceptance of any sort... way beyond that. Beyond if someone is a rock star or billionaire or barbarian king or
martyr or greatest scientist or artist or anything else that we "do".


You quote some of his quote about love. But, love goes along with pain. In a perfect world, no... all love, no pain,
because there would be no boundary for those whom we love. No pain for them, no end of our love, or rather,
no delay of satisfaction of the joy of love.


Jim has a lot of writings about this... how people turn aside from such love of others and embrace, instead roles,
games, anything to kill the pain or deny something greater.


The dead existence, the soulless existence... to never ask why one follows through with these rituals or ask for
anything "more" at all. And if love is the more, why should they? With love only comes pain. What do we ever mourn
for or ever feel, but for pain which comes to those we love?


Fear... also comes along with this. The fear that comes with guilt.

I am not a big fan of Nietzsche in many ways, but Jim seems to have scoured from him the best... while others
scoured the worst. For instance, the concept that morality is dynamic, liquid. What is "kill" to some is "murder"
to others. But, if one loves, then these static rules become meaningless.

There is no fear whatsoever in love. None.


Fear... worries. Worries about controlling events well beyond anyone's actual control. There is the illusion we have
control. But, deep down inside everyone knows we do not.


Jim also distilled from this the concept of the herd mentality. Which is all too true... how people dig into the roles
given to them by the media, acting as vampires, but truly caught in these idols of their own fantasies and unable
to break free... to be something completely off the written page.


No joke, all there in his writings or things he said. Yet, to so many he seems as just another drunk, over drugged
rock star of the late sixties who had too much and died. Was he.


How many people actually embrace their pain, like he advocated? To carry it to "show their strength" and not shy
away from it? To not try and deaden it with consensual societal delusions everyone gets into.


People talk about "being gods" or goddesses and such... and with Jim, maybe that seems like a dead end. All his
dreams seemed to end. Nothing came true for what he so strived for.


Any artists, I think, of merit... knows exactly what he meant by every performance being a "life or death struggle",
and for what? Why?


I suppose, if people even bother to research his writings or statements he made, they could still just shrug it all
off. If that is what they really want to do. But, not really. Because he was not a liar.


What generally happens with truth is it digs down deep into our minds, into that which one is unconscious of, and
it is assailed by doubts... and perhaps even kept down by them... but in the end, it stays.



But, sex, no... there are things way, way beyond that.