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September
8, 2002
©
2002: JAN COX
In
Re The Ceaseless Journey That Is Life:
you
are either riding the train, or you are
the train.
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When
it comes to the BigDeal:
no one can tell you what to do -- including you --
oh,
you can
-- but it doesn’t do any good,(now
does it).
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One
man’s favorite love song is: “Everything
I Do, I Do For Me.”
(He won’t say
who wrote it.)
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For
the ordinary to consider themselves in the best possible position
they
want to be, in-the-loop,
while
a man who has seen what is going on strives for just the opposite.
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Success
in the physical realm expands your waistline;
apparently
such in the mind, your pretentiousness.
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“Son,
an old proverb says: ‘It is better to be unread than to believe
everything
said in books’ -- change that to, ‘anything’ --
and you have something.
....Wait,
better still: wherever you would normally use the term, ‘I believe such-&-such,’
substitute instead: ‘I enjoy saying
I believe such-&-such.”
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To
feel they are engaged in a worthwhile activity,
routine
people need perceive it as being part of a large, commonly accepted one,
(such as Physics,
Psychology, Theology)
while
such a restriction is anathema to the man trying to see.
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Stupidity
has many consequences but sleeplessness is not one of them.
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The
distinction between advice and help
is
the difference between asking someone what is going on and knowing
what is.
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‘Tis
been said that more people would do right if they believed it was wrong,
so
why then do not more men strive for understanding
since
what is normally called knowledge is ignorance?
"Yeah, answer that!"
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Q:
How much about nothing can be said?
A:
How long has man been commenting on things intangible?
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Those
who write epigrams in praise of ordinary people
are themselves far too ordinary to be read.
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One
man says: “I will give heed to a cut or broken bone,
but
I’ll be damned if I’ll pay attention to the noise in my head.”
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If what you know is dependent on what you remember has happened to you --
When
everything possible's said and done
a
man-who-knows
knows
it’s time to run.
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A
man who says things that make others uncomfortable
is
himself wearing an itchy inner suit.
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“Why
does no one find it interesting that men do not dream of god?”
“Could
it be that no one notices it?”
“Yes.....that
could be so, but if we let it go at that
then
no question worth a real man’s time would ever get answered.”
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“Which
came first: the chicken or the egg?”
“The question.”
“Okay,
but after the question: which came into existence first; the chicken or
the egg?”
“Neither -- that is why men find the question so fascinating
and keep repeating it.”
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In
that certain matter: trickier to do than allegory
is
presenting the straight facts.
J
Where there’s
nothing else to do
a man-who-knows
knows
when through
is truly through.
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