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Hear the haunting words of Jim Morrison, poet and prophet of rebellion: “Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.” These are not idle musings, but cries from the depths of a soul wrestling with the chains of society. He speaks of the eternal conflict between what is natural and what is imposed, between the honest voice of the body and the suffocating weight of convention. In his vision, the truth of desire is silenced beneath layers of hypocrisy, until man and woman become strangers even to themselves.

The ancients knew that the body itself carries wisdom. To the Greeks, Eros was not merely passion but a divine force that drove life toward union, creation, and truth. Yet they also warned that when passion is twisted by corruption or falsehood, it leads to ruin. Morrison’s words echo this ancient insight: when the truth of the body is buried beneath lies, what should be a source of vitality becomes a prison. We adorn ourselves with masks of modesty, shame, or false bravado, and in doing so, we cripple the very essence of our humanity.

Consider the story of Victorian England, an age of great achievement but also of suffocating repression. Outwardly, society cloaked itself in purity and restraint, yet beneath the surface, desire festered in secret, spilling into scandal, exploitation, and double lives. The rules that sought to control the body did not erase its truth—they only drove it into shadows. Morrison warns of this very pattern: when we deny the honest voice of our being, we do not destroy it, but twist it into silence and pretense.

Even in our own time, we see how societies fracture under this weight. Cultures that speak openly about desire often find greater honesty and balance, while those that drown in shame breed hidden abuses. The lesson is ancient: repression breeds lies, but acknowledgment brings healing. Morrison dares us to face this contradiction, to unbind the body, to let it move without pretense, and to allow the truth to emerge. For only then can we be whole.

Yet Morrison’s cry is not only about desire. It is about life itself. How often do we live with one face for the world and another for ourselves? How often do we silence what we truly feel because it does not fit the rules? We bow to expectation, we bury our passions, we cripple ourselves with lies. This is not only the tragedy of sexuality, but the tragedy of existence. To live dishonestly is to live half-alive, forever bound in chains we ourselves have forged.

The lesson, then, is to strip away pretense. Listen to the body—not as a beast to be feared, nor as a god to be worshiped, but as a vessel of truth. It tells us when we are weary, when we are wounded, when we are yearning for love, for touch, for freedom. Do not ignore its murmurings beneath the noise of rules and appearances. Speak honestly of your needs, honor the needs of others, and walk without masks. This is not license to enslave yourself to passion, but liberation to live in harmony with the truth of your being.

So let this wisdom be etched into your heart: do not cripple yourself with lies. Seek the balance where passion is neither silenced by repression nor consumed by excess. Let the truth of your body and soul be spoken plainly, for in that honesty there is strength, healing, and freedom. Only then will you walk as one whole, unbound by the chains of pretense, alive in the fullness of your humanity.