On one planet everyone ran,
and one man discovered a way to run that was different from everyone else’s,
and to himself, based on his experience therewith,
he thought of the new way he had found as, running,
and the way in which everyone else did it as, faux running.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There are two possible reasons for being always dissatisfied with
wherever you are internally at the moment:
either because you have never been anywhere better  --   or:

In inner reality matters, people understand what they say they understand;
just as their thoughts make up all therein, so too can and do their thoughts say they understand whatever they want to say they understand;
whatever new understanding they require to validly make the claim --

Each individual's predominant source of stimuli is either
their environment, or their thoughts;
too much the latter produces neurotics,
too little the latter, and the former results in criminals & psychopaths.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

One man had fleas......well, he had what people where he lived called fleas;
he didn’t really know what they were, and calling them by a particular name (fleas) tended to delude him into thinking that he did know what they were,
thus keeping him from making the efforts to discover what they actually were.

There are two ways to swing at a ball: by keeping your eye on the ball,
and by keeping your eye on everything but the ball.
(Only one will work at a time.......and under the correct circumstances).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Routine people hold to a belief system to save-themselves –
for a man who wants-to-see  --  such is the ultimate loss.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Son, there is one ability alone (though I do not know how it can be taught) that will solve all problems (aside from back pain and psoriasis):

Some minds are able to say that thought and behavior
have a physiological as well as a psychological basis  --
but then fail to note the source of the psychological one

Reminder: at all times you are either thinking about things you can do,

 All that is required to be a  friend to another is to wish them no harm –
and to be an enlightened one  --  don't wish anything for them  --

What will keep you from getting anywhere is
treating ThisKindaActivity as though it is a problem-to-be-fixed,

Men are interested in hearing what other people think of their ideas (even if it be negative)
whereas they themselves are not the least bit interested in what they think of them.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Only the original is meaningful;
only Bach is Bach; everything else is Bach-like.

One man thought he had a tumor in his brain  --

Once you know what is going on you do not care what is going on with other people;
after you know what is going on you are not bothered by what other people
believe is going on;
only when you know what is going on do you correctly understand that
no one else does........,,,,,,,,,,,..and that it doesn’t matter any how.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A famous political revolutionist said: "Let the past serve the present"
while an unknown mental one noted: "Let the past be damned."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The only way most people can get attention is by being offensive.
 
 
 
 

  At best, spiritual-teachers are private musers;
   at worst, public ones  --   reflecting on the ideas of some previous muser.
 
 
 
 

      If you cannot become a willful simpleton then be a complexeton --
                                                                                          --   but in secret.
 
 
 
 

Civilization is supposed to act like a horse tranquilizer for too frisky minds.
 
 
 

One man could speak to himself in two different voices --
the difference was quite subtle -- and it was always still him talking  --
but using one them in particular  -- to him  --

Regarding inner -reality matters: people understand what they say they understand,
and people who say they understand anything in this realm --

“My boy, a jazz musician cannot explain how he improvises
any more than you can, how you talk.”
   “How about:how I think?”
”Well, I didn’t realize you were prepared to take it that far.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Regardless of how insane it may sound (god, afterlife)
anything that comes through the human mind  has an actual molecular basis;
the human mind cannot imagine even the most improbable from nothing.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Lad, in regard to what I told you earlier:
the advanced version is to never think about you;
when you combine this with not thinking about other people,
anything else your thoughts come up with will not be troublesome."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

When you realize how dumb everyone is
you are not bothered if someone thinks that you are dumb.
 
 
 
 

Everyone who claims to have feet will turn out to have clay ones --
(that's just how the game of talking about yourself works).
 
 
 
 

Everyone is part badger  --   and everyone's middle name is Hector.
 
 
 
 

Lying won't hurt you but talking will.
 
 
 
 

Reminder:
If there is to be any opposition to thought’s unique goals
                                        it will have to come from thought.
 
 
 
 

In the matter of fault finding, one man says: “Why should I criticize people,
and give them the satisfaction of feeling bad!”
   And another guy says: “I never tell people I don’t like that I don’t like them,
   and give them the pleasure then of returning the feeling.”
 
 
 

“Lad of my loins, an excruciatingly excellent example of what ordinary minds
would take to be an honorable reflection of their own integrity would be:
an old woman on her death bed asking her grandson, as he leaves, to pray-for-her,
and he stops, returns to her side and explains in longueur how,
as a matter of intellectual principle, he does not accept the idea of a supreme deity,
and thus cannot acquiesce to her request.”
    “Gee, Dad, once again you're  --   right-on-the-mark!"
"Nothing to it my boy:  in the land of Oz  --  Oz is always right.
 

    "Dad, is it possible that you are the smartest person in the world?"
"Even if I were  --   what difference would it make."
 
 
 
 
 

                          Psychologists & other experts say: “Children need fairy tales,”
                                          but then do not  note when childhood should end.
 
 

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