ÉKSTASIS
Vasco Araújo - Ékstasis (Soundtrack edited by Nuno Fonseca in the scope of the piece «Antológica» by Cão Solteiro & Vasco Araújo)
«This world, closed in on itself, unsettling, disturbing even, for the man born on terra firma and used to commanding great horizons of land. The clouds in the overcast sky emphasise its mysterious side. Events have no meanings. Events are events and meanings are thoughts. They have no meaning other than the meaning we give them. And the meaning we give to things doesn’t come from any event, circumstance, condition or situation outside ourselves.»
«Everything is within me. My vision, my body. My vision of my body becomes more fantastic and less real, this body of a man at the ends of the earth is no longer his real body, but one that has undergone metamorphosis.»
«The unusual characteristics and behaviour of this place scare me. Appearing and disappearing behind thick fog, taking on different shapes and, suddenly, I don’t know where I am or who I am, if I am really here or in some other place. I am scared... that they are going to hurt me, they might appear... they might be on the other side of the fog, I feel that I must do something, but I am scared. Because everything is new.»
«One of the greatest surprises of my life was finding out that absolute truth is something that doesn’t exist.»
«When we don’t love ourselves, we are not scared of anything, because we don’t worry about what’s going to happen to us or where we are going. We don’t care if we survive.»
«The ‘survival instinct’ is nature’s way of expressing love. I can only love what is free... am I free?»
«I am terrified of swapping a familiar past for an unfamiliar future.»
«I’m going to jump, now! I’m going to jump into the sea, I’m going somewhere else, I’m going to set myself free!»
«I am scared of never finding a situation like this again, a place where I don’t need to question anything.»
«My mind is manipulating everything, it’s creating reactions. Events and their realities are not the same thing. I am reacting automatically. Am I really seeing what is in front of me?»
«Reality is not what is really happening, it is what we think is happening.»
«We don’t experience what is happening.»
«We don’t experience what is happening on an external level, we experience internally what is happening externally.»
«No?!...»
«Uau!... No?!...»
«I would like to change the future so that it duplicates my past.»
«I want to change the future so radically that it becomes utterly different to my past.»
«My body makes me stand still. Truth is not discovered, it is created. It is not observed, it is produced.»
«This means that everyone sees a different truth, because everyone creates what he sees. Where one looks from determines what one sees.»
«Ahhh!... Magniphic!»
«Yes!... Magniphic!...»
«Yes, humanity is exploding with uncontrolled passion, it is tumultuous with ungoverned sadness, it is shaken by anxiety and doubt.»
«AHHHH!!!! I want you!»
«Yessss! I desire you!»
«Only wise men, only those whose thoughts are controlled and pure, can make the winds and storms of the soul obey them.»
«They make some of the worst things that have ever happened to them seem to be in fact some of the best things that have ever happened to them.»
«Uou... Help me!»
«Life is all about deciding. I am deciding... with every truth that I adopt, with every thought that I have, with every emotion that I express, with every experience that I create. To know again, to recognise, what is true.»
«Look!!»
(...)
«It’s now the moment...»
«Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Incridible!»
«Yes, it’s now the moment... I will set me free...»