beyond "beyond"...

 "if you talk about anything too much, you know, if you spend too much time defining what you do or telling people that you're free or being defensive about your freedom, obviously you're not free…

liberation… you know there's a lot of movements, whether it's like beatniks, hippies, women's lib, they're all just new political structures, they're all new dogma, they're all just to me… we want to initiate change but as soon as you get it you structure your change, as soon as you start writing patterns, as soon as you write some political order you write dogma, you're right there with catholicism, you're right there with communism... anything, any time you start stating this, this and this, rules and regulations… you're no longer liberated, you're just like a new political game, whether it's religious, you know, spiritual, whatever, social…

in our point, you spend your whole life keep breaking on through. you just can't break on through once and think well, i've made it, i broke through… break on through to the other side is just like going through one door. one door isn't enough, a million doors aren't enough. you have to go beyond, beyond one reflection, beyond the mirror, beyond beyond."

patti smith

interview with patti smith group (1976)