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November 15, 2002                                                                                 © 2002: JAN COX
 
 

One man played a game that required you to keep your
eye-on the-ball,
and he got so good at it (if that be the proper description)
that his eye became indistinguishable from the ball.

Upon reading of this, one man decided to write a letter to the editor of his paper regarding such matters, but upon opening his desk drawer to get pen and paper,
discovered his editor already there and aware of the affair.

His brother then entered the room and said: “You might as well just forget about it”
but before he could get all the words out of his mouth  --  he’d already forgotten it.

Though it may vague to them seem and difficult to detail –
most men’s unwitting notion of Paradise is a place wherein exists no irony
(which more precisely is to say): a place where the obvious is no longer ignored.
 
 

How To Think Better: Part Twenty-Nine:
Never repeat anything you have heard  --   especially to yourself.
 
 

Men invented mechanically driven time pieces as an attempted reflection of how they sensed the passing of thought through their mind to mark their own internal tempo.
 
 

The energy driving the engine of civilization can be seen as having
several graduated sources:
the first might be said to come from man’s knowledge of death;
and behind that could be said to stand his interest in the future,
and further on back could be said to be his curiosity regarding what is possible
in this reality,
and basic to it all is the great whirl of the great whirling as it wonders about
the nature of its whirling
(which is another way to say): man’s mind hungering to comprehend itself.

How To Think Better: Part Forty Six:
Never talk to yourself  --   particularly in words.
 

The certain man alone sees fully why talking about any matter intangible
is the worst way to go about understanding it;
this very sentence is insane to the normally sane,
and deeply encoded to the rest.

Note: the certain man makes and reads only his home grown code.
 
 

Regarding Excitement:
What excites you evidences what your mind understands.

Proverb From The Professions, Updated:
He who talks  --   and listens to himself has a fool for a client....uhhh.....
......an idiot for a patient  --   (well, you get the drift).
 

   If a man is not then,
   his own best friend,
   must he remain his imaginary foe?
 
 

      How is the mind to call to itself? –
      what can it say that will shake itself awake.
 

         There are certain tricky-things which song birds can be
         told only if they are first tricked into listening.
 

All tricks for the certain man are tricks within but a single trick,
something requiring decades to see;
but his eventual realization is that the single trick is in fact,
not a trick at all, but rather the ironic and misleading legerdemain continually performed by the obvious and unconcealed.
 
 

How The More Conscious Better Use Their Mind: Part Ninety Two:
They never state their mental intention  --    especially to themselves.
 
 

One man had a pet,
similar to those had by others,
but while everyone else bragged about the one trick theirs could do,
he discovered unknown ones his could perform.

   The certain man’s carnival must be entirely his own from top to bottom:
   all original rides & attractions,
   all sales pitches, come-ons & spiels written by his own hand.