{"quotes":[{"text":"We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of smell to do the exact same thing. It is known that the scent of fresh rosemary increases memory, but this cure for memory loss is not divulged by doctors to help the elderly. I also know that the most effective use of the blue lotus flower is not from its dilution with wine or tea – but from its scent. To really maximize the positive effects of the blue lily (or the pink lotus), it must be sniffed within minutes of plucking. This is why it is frequently shown being sniffed by my ancient ancestors on the walls of temples and on papyrus. Even countries across the Orient share the same imagery. The sacred lotus not only creates a relaxing sensation of euphoria, and increases vibrations of the heart, but also triggers genetic memory - and good memory with an awakened heart ushers wisdom.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ailment","ancient-egyptians","ancient-medicine","awakened","awakened-heart","blue-lily","cure","cures","doctors","east","egypt","egyptians","elderly","enlightenment","euphoria","flower","flowers","fluids","genetic-memory","genetics","health","healthcare","heart","illness","illnesses","imagery-sacred","increaes-memory","lily","lotus","lotus-flower","medicine","memory","memory-loss","metaphysics","orient","papyrus","philosophy","physicians","pills","power","power-of-scent","power-of-smell","remedy","rosemary","sacred-lotus","scent","scripture","smell","smelling","tea","temples","tombs","treatment","vibrations","wine","wisdom"],"id":3575,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It's like the commercial, 'Once you pop you can't stop.'  Once you pop a pill, you can't stop.  They have you hooked and they know it.  Like a drug dealer, they are so happy they have won another loyal customer.  Not loyal because you want to be, but loyal because your body is now completely dependent on them and their legal prescription 'drugs.'.","author":"Lisa Bedrick","tags":["doctors","pills","prescriptions","psychology"],"id":37243,"author_id":"Lisa+Bedrick"},{"text":"Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks;One burnt her daddy up and then there were six.Six little crazy kids playing with a hive;One tattooed himself to death and then there were five.Five little crazy kids on a cellar door;One went all schizo and then there were four.Four little crazy kids going out to sea;One wouldn't say a word and then there were three.Three little crazy kids walking to the zoo;One jerked himself too much and then there were two.Two little crazy kids sitting in the sun;One a took a bunch of pills and then there was one.One little crazy kid left all alone;He went and slit his wrists, and then there were none.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["burn","crazy","drown","jerking","kids","notes","pills","schizo","silence","slitting","suicide","suicide-notes","tattoo"],"id":52408,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'The Taking of Christ' right the hell out of them.","author":"Jennifer Donnelly","tags":["art","artists","pills"],"id":84686,"author_id":"Jennifer+Donnelly"},{"text":"Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012).","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["2012","apothecary","caress","girl","love","medicine","melancholia","melancholy","november","pharmacy","pills","rain","roman","roman-payne","spain","spanish","valencia","wine","woman"],"id":96552,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Sometimes we take action, sometimes we take pills.","author":"Fall Out Boy","tags":["action","music","pills"],"id":116578,"author_id":"Fall+Out+Boy"},{"text":"Birds and periodic blood.Old recapitulations.The fox, panting, fire-eyed,gone to earth in my chest.How beautiful we are,he and I, with our auburnpelts, our trails of blood,our miracle escapes,our whiplash panic flogging us onto new miracles!They’ve supplied us with pillsfor bleeding, pills for panic.Wash them down the sink.This is truth, then:dull needle groping for the spinal fluid,weak acid in the bottom of the cup,foreboding, foreboding.No one tells the truth about truth,that it’s what the fox sees from his scuffled burrow:dull-jawed, onrushingkiller, being thatinanely single-mindedwill have our skins at last.","author":"Adrienne Rich","tags":["blood","pills","truth"],"id":133411,"author_id":"Adrienne+Rich"},{"text":"I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could ever receive to make her go cold turkey off the meds.","author":"Rachel Cohn","tags":["cupcake","cyd-charisse","drugs","gingerbread","high","humour","leg-injury","medication","oscar-the-grouch","painkillers","pills","rachel-cohn","sesame-street","shrimp"],"id":152194,"author_id":"Rachel+Cohn"},{"text":"The worst feeling in the world is not losing your friend forever, but rather having patronizing people tell you that the love you have for your friend and the connection and emotion you have towards them is an illness to be cured, a problem to be covered up and hidden away by the power of mood-altering drugs. I used to trust doctors when I was younger... Now I've lost my trust in all mental health professionals forever.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["antipsychiatry","death-of-a-friend","depression","doctor","drugs","emotion","grief","love","mental-illness","pills","power","psychiatry","trust"],"id":173903,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes that, dear youth, is how you'll be loved. I tried to medicate my own fucked up little mind with chemicals and adrenaline, tasting sweeter every night, shaking louder every time. Sitting wide awake in bed until the world disappears, writing poetry to concentrate on something real while waiting for the love to arrive.I've been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up, maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so alive, sober and not so sober.(I lost track of the difference somewhere in between.).","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["drunk","finding-yourself","love","lucid-dreaming","night","pills","sober","solitude","youth"],"id":182927,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}