The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) / quote 82 of 125

Fear of death is the cement of slave society

I saw that I had not been so wide of the mark in the woods. Ultimately, fear of death is the cement of slave society—that’s at the root of our fear of freedom, and we’ll never get out of this mess until we have integrated both life and death in a higher unity. Because it’s awareness of death alone that can wake us up: death alone that can make us kind and gay.

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