Enlightened quotes from Bob Dylan

[MarkusSweden]

Bob Dylan is my only hero in life. 

He inspired me in the same way Osho inspired @Prabhaker. 

In this thread I will post quotes from Bob Dylan that I believe are spiritual insightful. 

Feel free to comment the quotes that you like(or dislike).

Here's a first quote: 

“She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.”

From Love Minus Zero/No Limit

Edited May 17, 2018 by MarkusSweden

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“reality has too many heads”

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“I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”

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“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his [and her] freedom.”

[Arman]

I'd say more than 80% of the music I've listened to over the last 3-4 years has been Bobs. I listen to him every. god. damn. day. Particularly live performances. 

Not sure how relevant this thread is to the forum, but I can't resist...

 

"well you can't take it with you but you know it's too worthless to be sold - they tell you time is money as if your life was worth its weight in gold" 

 

 

The bakery truck stops outside of that fence
Where the angels stand high on their poles
The driver peeks out, trying to find one face
In this concrete world full of souls
The angels play on their horns all day
The whole earth in progression seems to pass by
But does anyone hear the music they play
Does anyone even try?

OH. and I almost forgot...

 

An eternal flame, quietly burning
Never need to be proud, nor restless yearning.

Edited May 17, 2018 by Arman

[MarkusSweden]

“We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.”

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“Definition destroys ... there’s nothing definite in this world”

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“People talk about egos as if it were objects.”

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“Funny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least.”

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“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

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“..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.”

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“When I listen to people talk, all I hear is what they're not tellin' me.”

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“Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid”

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“We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it”

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“Some times I think this whole world
Is one big prison yeard
Some of us are prisoners
The rest of us are guards”

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“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”

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“every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain”

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 "The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?"

[Prabhaker]

On 5/17/2018 at 6:11 PM, MarkusSweden said:

In this thread I will post quotes from Bob Dylan that I believe are spiritual insightful. 

A poet, once in a while, suddenly finds himself in the same space as the mystic. On those rare occasions, he is almost a Gautam Buddha – but remember, I’m saying almost.

[MarkusSweden]

“The truth was obscure,
Too profound and too pure,
To live it you had to explode”