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16 Intense Eye-Opening Moments From Scar Tissue By Anthony Keidis

16 Intense Eye-Opening Moments From Scar Tissue By Anthony Keidis

Every artist is at war with the world.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Creativity Innovation Exploring the Possibilites Individuality

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Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

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It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog, or I ripped my pants on the fence post, or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over - it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Cheating Lazy Shortcuts In Life

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I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Drugs Pleasure Pursuit of Happiness Life Tips

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I was withering away, mentally, spiritually, physically, creatively- everything was fading out.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Exhausted Giving Up

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When you're using drugs, you're driven by this mystical black energy, a force inside you that just won't quit. And the weaker you get, the more you feed into that energy, and the more it fucks with you. When your spirit becomes dark and your lifestyle becomes dark, your existence is susceptible to infiltration by dark spirits. I've seen it so many times with addicts. You can see that they're controlled by dark energy, the way they look, their appearance, their voice, their behavior, it's not them.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Addictions Drug Addiction Alcohol Recovering Addict

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The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Addiction Drugs Alcoholism Mental Health

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It started when we were little kids.
Free spirits, but already
tormented by our own hands
given to us by our parents.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Child Abuse Bad Parents

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There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Alcoholic Assholes Ego

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I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

I Hate Myself Pain

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When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Healing Addiction Mental Illness

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I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Transformation Hopeful Resilience Survivor

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…And we used ‘I love you’ like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Love Apology Sadness Inability

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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

humanity Chaos Of Life

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One of the techniques they teach to get rid of a resentment toward somebody is to pray for him or her to get everything that you want for yourself in life-to be loved, to be successful, to be healthy, to be rich, to be wonderful, to be happy, to be alive with the light and the love of the universe. It's a paradox, but it works. You sit there and pray for the person you can't stand to get everything on earth that you would want for yourself, and one day you're like 'I don't feel anything bad toward this person.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

forgiveness Forgiving Prayers resentment Healing

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I’m still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can’t complain.

— Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

Problems Challenges Acceptance strength

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