 Morpheus
(holding out two pills): Take
the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe
whatever you  want
to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I
show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.... Remember, all I'm offering
is the truth, nothing more....
We're faced with a similar choices. To sleep - or to wake up and
go down the rabbit hole.
Cypher: I know
what you're thinking, because right now I'm thinking the same thing.
Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here. Why, oh why
didn't I take the blue pill?... (Neo drinks and winces)
Cypher: Good stuff,
huh. Dozer makes it. It's good for two things, degreasing engines
and killing brain cells.
A
part of us wants to kill our brain cells. It's the
part that wants to keep on clinging to the pillow in the morning,
that kicks us for taking the red pill.
 Agent
Smith: Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?
Cypher: You know, I
know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth,
the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After
nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.
Part of us loves unadulterated comfort, sheer bliss.Too much reality
can be a killjoy. Who cares if the pleasure isn't real…
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Definition:
Yetzer HaRah (Hebrew) The part of us that craves the
physical, often identified with the body. One of life's
challenges is to harness and channel this force, rather
than let it run wild. |
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Agent Smith: Then we
have a deal?
Cypher: I don't want
to remember nothing. Nothing. And I want to be rich, someone important,
like an actor.
Agent Smith: Whatever
you want, Mr. Reagan.
The body yearns for illusion, for the counterfeit pleasures. Forget
about being someone really important, the body is satisfied with
the sensation of importance - as long as there is no pain. - to
be famous, rich, in a world of complete illusion. Real meaning and
virtue takes a lots of effort. The counterfeit version is an easy
ride.
Cypher: He lied to us,
Trinity. He tricked us. If you'da told us the truth, we woulda told
you to shove that red pill.
Trinity: That's not
true, Cypher, he set us free.
Cypher: Free? You call
this free? All I do is what he tells me to do. If I had to choose
between that and the Matrix, I choose the Matrix.
Trinity: The Matrix
isn't real.
 We
all have a death wish. The body's underlying drive is suicide -
the ultimate state of feeling no pain. In the meantime it'll settle
for suicide in installments - just one more drink, one more hit.
And anybody that tries to stop it... watch out! The body wants escape.
The soul yearns for reality, for Zion.
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