As a first example of his mental prowess,
a kid handed his old man a paper on which he’d written:
“The paths of fame and power lead only to the grave”  --
the elder read it  --  looked away  --  then read it aloud:
“The paths of fame and power lead only to the grave”  --
the lad beamed as his father scowled and said:
“So this is it?!  --  the fruits of your insight?!:
‘The paths of fame and power lead only to the grave””
he looked at the smiling boy and said: “Well, you may never be a sage or philosopher, but at least you can obviously become.....” and here his speech ceased
as he began to gag and heave.
(He later told the lad this was just a bit of theatrics  --  thirty years later.)

‘Tis often said: “The first blow is the hardest,” but ‘tis never asked: “On whom?” --
the reason being that the current laws on life’s books do not allow questions
that could have more than one answer.

Definitions.
Thinking: Putting consciousness off balance.
Real Thinking: Rocking a man with inner ear problems.
Note: Even the best of definitions are made to be broken.
(One man wants to know how the word: even ever got in the dictionary.)

On a post card one chap notes that some of his best friends live in the city  --
trouble is, he says he can’t distinguish them from his best enemies.

One doctor’s prescription for all purely human complaints:
“Lay down ‘til it passes.”                 (Every city has lifted his license.)

Dumb people don’t like to have their home address given out.

A man who will take a metaphor personally  --  then not care for it properly  --
is like a cow who will eat a thistle, then cry out: “Great god a’mighty!  --
what the hell is this?!  --  and do I like it or WHAT!”

In man’s intangible reality: even if you know what you’re talking about
you still have to exaggerate just to minimally cover the matter being spoken of.
(There is not enough material in the entire universe to make Lucifer's cape,
or Cinderella's gown.)

Nothing’s a sin the first time ‘round.

Psychology And The Stockyards.
Cows can be helped to die peacefully by being reminded (right at the end)
of how unfair life always was.

It is certainly easy to admire something you don’t understand,
(also to detest it).
With the collective: ignorance is an illusion  --  but even more so: is intelligence!
(One man still wants to know how the word: even made it into man’s vocabulary.)

One who has traveled throughout this universe says the funniest
(or maybe the most curious) things he has ever witnessed
are the self composed epitaphs on human gravestones.
Says a lobbyist for common human consciousness:
    “I may not grasp what it is that I am now, but once I’m gone  --  POW!  --
      then it’ll be another story entirely!”
Seen in the rear view mirror as they speed away in the opposite direction:
Fords can look like Ferraris.
    “Not only Fords, but non existent autos as well, huh?!”
Supercharged checkeredflagamundo.

Conversation.
“Enjoying life is no sport for amateurs.”
    “Sure it is  --  for who else?!”
A son asked a father:
“Do we become serious in conjunction with becoming stupid?”
   “May I assume you ask this in response to the previous colloquy?!”

From a textbook: The Laws Of Evidence.
A man who has stopped talking is dead.
    (“Pardon: but is that from a criminal or civil perspective?
      ‘Cause it strikes me how uncivil it would be to do such a thing  --
       yet also what a criminal waste of perfectly good words.”)

Slogan For A Potential Real Individual.
Without the collective  --  I could not breathe;
with it  --  I cannot think.
    (“Same old story again, huh?!: The herd giveth and the herd taketh away.
       I keep thinking the word: apparently should be in there somewhere
       [maybe a couple of times even]  --  yet at the time I say it  --
       I never remember to include it.                   Funny, huh?!”)

The ideas of the awakened mind are not for the purpose of describing things,
but of detailing their essence.
 

Politics & Religion (Among Other Things) And The Mind.
Men love promises;
men love promises for the same reasons they love words.

There are two quite strange journeys a human can make,
one of which is unique to humans.

Literary News.
When men have given up all hope  --  then they write their biography.

Make no mistake: Those who have complaints with life  --  have got it all!

Culinary News.
The ambrosia for the independent, real deal thinker is the feeding to his mind  --

Make no mistake: Those who have complaints with their self  --  have got it made!

Education (On The Hoof As It Were).
The obvious can teach nothing to the collective,
(other than what they are born realizing and destined to forget.)

The Technology Of Psychology.
If some men were not dumber than they think they are,
and others did not think they are dumber than they are,
men collectively could not be as they are.
In the collective consciousness of man operates a supreme leveling,
and stabilizing device.

In Re The Placement Of Resources.
The real-deal-man invests only in himself.