No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.