People
with little substantial going on in their head love to fill it and make
it
feel
more solid with heroic myths and spiritual tales:
a
shoring up of weak concrete with imaginary silly putty --
and
with ordinary men --
it works!
“Yes,”
said some local conditions to a young apprentice,
“all
that matters with any matter in life is that -- it
works,”
and
life overhearing this mused:
“Right!
--
and if you understood what you just said you wouldn't be working for me.”
Resistance
is the real slavery.
“I thought foolishness was.”
Okay:
resistance where it is foolish.
Afloat
in the collective sea: everyone's ordinary mind is battered by
the
endless waves, and those who do not understand where they are
continually
curse or cry about the conditions.
The
speaker in city park so harangued the passing throng:
“Though
un credited: Man’s mind is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient…”
“No, no!” shouted out a voice, “you’re talking about God,”
and
the speaker yelled back: “See!
-- not lightly do I use the term:
un
credited.”
Through
his employment of routine talk, life does not expect man to
make
his intangible world better or worse --
just more complicated.
(The
fancier the costume the better.)
One
man offers: “Viewed in the best light: all the world’s proclaimed methods
to
achieve enlightenment are the musing of one awakened man’s mind
that
at one time amused him.”
For
certain private pleasures
to be made public they must be codified and
cast
in bronze.
“Like baby shoes?!”
Exactly.
In
prison everyone sings one of two popular songs, either:
“Let
Me Tell You How Crappy I’ve Had It,”
or: “Let Me Tell You How Great I
Am,” both crooned to the same
tune, and with equal measures of originality and knowledge-based inspiration.
(“Are we supposed to guess the size of the measure?”)
Mind’s
Automatic Concept Of Where The Benefit Lies.
When
he heard an organization promote the fact that they neuter dogs and cats
free,
a
man puzzled: “Well what animal would pay for it?!”
A
father noted to a son:
“Catching
on to what is going
on is like bursting a blister that
you
didn’t even know existed.
Could
there be any pastime more exhilarating than this:
the
ultimate payoff being the eye-popping explosion of a whole world,
over
in a whole different direction from where you believed you were headed.
And
speaking of that:
How
does the word, head
manage to end up in every conversation we have?!"
Ordinary
Minds’ Unpublished Motto.
“I
can bear others being richer than me --
but not their seeming more carefree.”
What
makes impending death tolerable for creatures without thoughts
is
their awareness of how seriously humans take the matter.
(“I don’t get it,” said his trainer: “Shut up,” said the lion.
One
city dude (and part time rube) offers:
“If
pushed on the subject: most people would say that they: ‘don’t
think’
because
they are too busy thinking about something else.”
The
ordinarily raised mind will plead: “But I only have one hand!”
--
getting
past this requires the self inflicted instruction so eagerly sought by
the
nervous-system-rebel.
The
Inner Architecture: Features Of Prison Structures.
While
it is not possible to: See too
far for your own good,
it
is possible to do so to no advantage to those on the lower floors.
“Are you talking about other people, or other areas of my mind?”
Both,
Lank Floyd.
Urban
Employment News.
The
new responsibilities that go with any job promotion for local conditions
consist
of them becoming more complicated.
Medical
Parallel.
Normal
consciousness does not increase in actual size during time,
but
merely becomes bloated.
(“Here, here! my good apothecary: a bromide for my thoughts!”
[Better than a penny.])
As
distinct from the ordinary mind’s conception of a tripartite time:
the
rebel’s past, future and present are all in the same moment; a mutinous
sailor’s unplottable pleasure that comes from all waves being the same
to him:
“The
sea is the sea; the whitecaps, passing cold snaps.”
The
warmth that comes from turning that certain corner
-- never leaves.
(“Is this why the ground temperature in the graveyard is always higher
in the Awakened Man’s Section?”)
Regarding
Royalty And Their Lack Of Loyalty To A Particular Residence.
When
the King
travels --
he doesn’t have
to pack.
Corollary:
Only peons have an entourage.
Not
for the rebel is: The more the
merrier --
but the inhibiting.
That
part of consciousness the nervous system rebel’s seeks and needs
is
the epitome of a loner: that is what makes it so valuable.
The
Certain Man's Silent Slogan.
“I
die alone --
I fly alone.”
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