YEAH --
      EVERYBODY WANTS IT DELIVERED ALREADY ASSEMBLED,
               BUT YOU HAVE TO PUT IT TOGETHER YOURSELF.

             (YEAH, YEAH -- SOME OF THE PIECES ARE MISSING -- 
               ........OKAY  --   ALL OF THEM.     SATISFIED?!)
                                         _______________
 
 
 
 
 

All You Need To Know Concerning Reality:
When you are quiet  --  reality speaks,
and when you talk about it  --  it becomes un real.

     This is called: “Pissing away your electrical budget."
 

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When the suitcase is full -- you’re off to dream land;
endless travel in a vacuum, just this side of death. 
At least a man with a migraine knows that he’s alive.
Throw out those old clothes  -- 
           -- no one can see them but you anyway.
 
 
 

                                              *
 
 

There is a surface that only shines when 
something is reflected in it, 
and when there is nothing to be reflected, 
it will provide something on its own.
To realize that mind has no depth,
only a reflective surface, 
is to have half of all the realization necessary.
To even say that depthless thoughts are simply reflections of other thoughts 
gives thoughts a patina of depth that is undeserved. 

                  A mirror should not be tense.
 
 
 

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To entertain the words of others is to offer yourself up, constructively saying: 
“May I become as confused as you?”
And one should in particular avoid heeding anything heard said in their own head.

   Words can certainly make you deaf, dumb and blind, 
    but they can also raise you from a bed of invalidism.

                You gotta know when to flap ‘em,
                you gotta know when to wrap ‘em.

       Lips away --  lips away, Hoy!….  (Whew!  Oh boy.)

           On the isle of alert, everyday is bundle-day.
 
 
 

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                            NOT MERELY A ROUND ROBIN, 
     BUT AN OBSCENELY PLUMP ONE, SOME WOULD SAY.

You only have it when you seek it;
you only seek it when you remember it;
you only have it when you remember it,
then you have it but for a moment --  only to lose it, 
a loss you would not be aware of 
had you not wanted to have it in the first place.
 
 

      Those with a wired-in longing-to-understand
              have a natural pleasure in the mind, 
            but the joys you experience after you 
                        get-the-understanding
       makes your present ones seem amateurish. 
 
 
 

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                  ALTO! WHO DOESN’T GO THERE?

With every change of conditions – 
consciousness is born;
being more life-like in consciousness 
is in being less affected by these shifts.
(Can you spell: 
“Impossibility-passing-for-a-school-bus”?)
In the beginning a man seeks to discover reality.
In the end he seeks to become a man about whom 
there is no reality.
 
 

Men tend to treat life as though they are living inside a big padded suit; 
handling normal affairs as though they are wearing kitchen mitts.
Life makes men treat themselves, 
and the second reality that they have created,
as being extremely delicate.

       You will never get to the bottom of things 
        being delicate;
        be delicate with others, 
        but treat yourself hamfistedly.
 
 
 

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Drop all second & third person references from your 
mental vocabulary, and first person ones 
at least from your verbal one.

Stripped Version: Don’t think about anyone but yourself --
              -- and do that without using the word “I”.
 
 
 

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            YOU CAN FLOG AN INVISIBLE HORSE, 
 BUT YOU CAN’T FORCE YOURSELF TO HEAR IT WHINNY.

Anyone who says that he sees the truth 
has cataracts, and deceives himself.
Leave the truth be, and it speaks eloquently for itself -
--  to those who can hear.
 

Whether literally apparent or not, 
all ordinary sentences are compound, 
and contain the words, “will & but:”
a perfect reflection of how mind operates.
 
 

Not only cannot how-things-are be explained, 
it can’t even be explained why it can’t be explained.
A man partially awake can no longer explain 
how-things-are;
one fully aroused won’t even try to explain why 
how-things-are
can’t be explained.
 

The mind holds but one erroneous belief: 
That it knows something about a non-physical realm.
 
 
 

      Be a sieve; let all the parts run right thru you,
      and they will eventually assemble themselves;
                 just don’t let words stick to you. 

     The power is not in grasping -- but in letting go.
 
 
 

Being asleep is the mind lying about what it believes;
ergo, waking up must also be a form of lying.
Being awake is all an act. 
If you pretend to be awake 
you no longer care whether you are awake or not.
 

The Sudden vs. Gradual view of Awakening: 
Pretending is after all, something done instantly:
you are either pretending, or else you’re not;
either pretending to be awake, or asleep, 
or else you’re not pretending to be either.
 

   Surfaces can’t believe in anything anyway  --  so: 
   holding on is not the trick -- letting it all slide, is.
 
 
 
 

                      When you discover that 
            the mirror is reflective on both sides 
                       its uncovered slickness 
                         cures all that ails you.
 
 

                                        J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A father advised a son: "Go not in search of the truth,
seek instead, the false,
for when you finally realize that no such exists,
you will have discovered the truth."

                ...amidst all the ceaseless changes  --   nothing changes   --   and that is the secret.