Burning Man Movie Quotes - Journey to the Flame

Journey to the Flame
  • When something means something there is something that feels innermost inside you. And then it leaps out, you feel I am that, I am that.
  • Burning Man is like every dimension opening up and spilling out onto this vast Playa; every crazy thing you can imagine; a weird inter-dimensional party.
  • For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
  • In society we are ruining the trust structures that institutions were really built on; society as we know is kind of crumbling and we need to strive to create utopian realisms; a great metaphor of what Burning Man is.
  • Burning Man is a great place for kids, my son's viewpoint, he lives in a world where purple dinosaurs talk, so Burning Man is not that different from his real life.
  • Hundred million gigaflops in your face; of true authentic wellspring mind explosion expansion ecstasy; put that in your pipe and smoke it....See you on the Playa...
  • When you go to a place like Burning Man, it becomes aware to you that people make the world what it is; and we have the power to create a wonderful magical society if we so choose.
  • It is an experiment in authentic interaction in art; sort of a socialistic expression of a true democratic and free thinking society; a utopian realist society, where living in this type esthetic zone...To me Burning Man emulates that, it is reminiscent of the people getting together to form a good society; a society with ideals and visions, a cooperative net social structure.
  • It is the only place I have seen that gives you complete freedom of expression
  • When you take away the commerce and you get people with their level of expertise showing off what they do best; then its mind blowing.
  • When people go to Burning Man; they begin to realize they create the world. That is something we forget; that we have all forgotten, that in our being it is made real.
  • People come out to the event for the first time; it's like a giant Birthday Party, they are overwhelmed by it. It is all a gift, it is being given to them; and they do not have to pay for it and they are overwhelmed by that experience. But if you keep coming; what you learn is that you have to turn yourself into a gift in order to keep the thing alive. When you do that and assume a role, Burning Man becomes a way of life.