If you wish to conquer the sufferings of birth and death,
then you must never seek salvation somewhere outside yourself.
The mysteries of existence are there within your life
and if you learn to use them, they can cut deeper than any knife.
It’s tangible, it’s natural, it’s factual, it’s sexual,
it’ll make it cool when you act a fool and take the haters back to school.
If you wish to transform the patterns that hang you up
and turn all of that struggle into the foundation of your love,
then you need look no further than what you’re doing now,
sitting, complaining about the situation, or are you wiping sweat off your brow?
Transparency, no L.I.E.s is the only way to be free.
The U.S.A. and its N.S.A., F.B.I., C.I.A.,
there is no hope to get away, so might as well be on display
and show the world that it’s okay.
They need to know that it’s okay.
And if it’s got you by the balls, trying to figure out what to do,
just turnout all your pockets and do you, man, do you, man do you.
My god, it’s better than nothing.
My god, it might just be something.
It’s true what the kids say, you do only live once,
but that one life is endless, it’s not like you get out and you’re done.
Recharge the battery, then you’re right back to it,
into a garden only filled with the flowers that you plant.
So if you’re sowing heaven, you’re gonna enjoy your life.
But if a child is born into a desert then you’ll know you didn’t do it right.
And we’ll join voices for the saving of the land.
I do not wish to harm you, there’s no weapon in my hand.
I want you to have happiness and not superficially.
That’s the kind that’s dependent on externality.
The real one, the one inside
that makes you strong, makes you wise,
creates the future, sets the vibe,
it’s the reason you’re even alive,
knows happiness is not founded on pleasure or pain.
You know those old bedfellows are machinations of the brain.
Happiness is the determination never to give in,
believing victory will come and the fun is not knowing when.
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