When you arrive at too much curiosity, call me.
"...You shall never be fear-free. The best you could hope for is to befriend fear. Think of it as such, imagine if you can take the adrenaline of whatever hormones that fear makes the body produce and invest this as a stimulant, a drug, toward deeper and more radical living. How exciting it can be to feel your heart racing and you start to smell your sweat = alive!"
"Let me remind you of what Zizi declared cosmically some time ago or never: Everything Zizi says is possibly the truth and also probably a big lie. Zizi continuously as long as Zizi lives will remain true to changing her mind. Those who claim they know are full of BS gone bad. One can, at best, claim to know to the best of their knowledge. We seek. And continue to seek. Until it all goes silent."
How do we maintain our sense of wonder and curiosity without feeling exhausted? Why do we fear losing it? How do we separate greed from wonder?
"The end of curiosity is death. Be exhausted. Be tired. Be curious at any price. It is sometimes okay to take a break and float in the mainstream using a traditional structure. Tradition has lots of wild within it, can offer a parachute just in case you needed it, a foundation to rest on - but never ever make it your home. Start by never living in the same place for more than two years. Always have guests, turn a blind eye to the dishes, and always ask why a certain law is in place and break it."
What do you say to the unrelenting need to do the dishes as soon as I finish lunch or before I go to bed?
"You are a fool. That is what I would say. You are using the dishes as a distraction. Go for a walk and think carefully, what are you so afraid of?"
What if curiosity is a commodity and the need to always be in awe is a sort of addiction?
"Are you there yet? When you arrive at too much curiosity, call me. Curiosity is about listening to the answer when you ask a question. Curiosity involves sitting back, being quiet and listening and watching. And then curiosity is about falling asleep to a world of wonder; go for the rides in dreamland and tell your dreams (only the interesting ones) to a fellow curious. Curiosity is also about sitting back with your emotion and living it. If you get too excited with your curiosity, grab a drink, go out for a smoke, take a break, be lazy, be slow."
"We, on the other hand, are trying to practice humility, we want to become nothing, we believe that if humans reach a point where they know they are just a moment in time, then we can all just relax and just be and enjoy our cigarettes. We just want to reach the point where we know and believe that death and birth are the only guarantees, and love, for sure love. What if we pause and say that without humility one cannot love or maintain love? By love, we mean creating a safe and solid space for the people we care about to be themselves, to allow for a mutual growth for everyone involved, to be extremely sensitive."
A conversation between Adrianne Marie Brown, Zizi & the Rocca Family
Pleasure Activism, Pages 332 - 334