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 Secret Wall Tappings To Those Seeking Unfamiliar Inner Eloquence
 JUNE 27, 2004                                                                       © 2004: JAN COX

What You Get From This News,
Is What You Seem To See,
Assuming That Your Mind's No More ,
Than It 'Twas Born To To Be
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A minister in one prison gained fame not usually experienced by those in religion  --
which some social observers attributed to his formidable intellect  --
others to his many acts of public charity  --
yet others pegged his unprecedented popularity to the fact that at the conclusion of
all his sermons he lifts his hands toward the heavens and exclaims:

“Let the boogie woogie roll!”
Parrots may plan the picnic, but rhinos do the eating,
(and are much pleased when all the chatter [which they do not grasp anyway] is OVER!)
 

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One man's feeling of confidence in the sagacity of the authorities was firmed up when he heard them describe a sought for serial killer as having: “very poor social skills.” (Operating on the assumption that such penetrating insight must surely equal extraordinary living skills.)

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One warden so advised his son:
“You can’t get people to do anything unless you make them feel guilty.”
   “But how do you account for men with the ability to get-to-the-bottom-of-things?”
“They’re not mere people.”

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Don’t sneer at log rolling  –  without it, those with no talent would never get praise.

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Conversation.
“Only consciousness thinks it is the most important part of the body.”
    “Is it?”
“The problem to answering that is that only consciousness can respond to that.”
Thus be consciousness the problem and  answer to everything.
 

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The world wide beliefs in a god are proof both of man’s desire for greater consciousness, and of how easily this is satisfied in most of them.
Only the certain few press on past this curtain of verbal/mental smoke.
 


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Those concerned about eternity are men without tickets,
fretting over the bus schedule.


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Dialogue.
“The most important thing is to have a locked door.”
    “Better still would be to have no door.”
“Do you mean a wall without a door cut in it,
or one with a door frame but no door hung therein?”
    “Okay –  best of all would be to simply live out of doors.”
“Now I think we’ve got it.”
 

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“Being minimally alive is still  being alive.”
(This being by the way,  the motto of routine consciousness.)
 


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By-play Brushing Belief.
“When with ordinary people, the awakened man believes whatever they believe."
    “You mean he says he does.”
“What else is there?!”

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The certain man’s different  consciousness is his own umbilical cord to himself.
 
 

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Striving –  hell! –  achieving –  the height of efficiency, one man ran a dirt farm!
(Raising what? of course, being obvious.)
 
 

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A father told a son:
“In our great undertaking: Don’t ever let them see you sweat.”
    “And who is them?”
“Your routine thoughts.”

      Women cry because of hormones;
      men because of fear mixed with stupidity.
 

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Good prisoners can be made to feel guilty for just being locked up.
 


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(Today’s edition of): Answer This.
One man was a drug smuggler,
but he never left his room;
what’s going on?  --  how’d he do it?
 

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When he would feel emotionally out of sorts:
one man would take some zinc, a little magnesium and a bit of vitamin E –
not because he believed it would do him any good --
but to get even with himself       --      ("Whoever,” he notes, “THAT is.”)
 

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“Don’t forget kid,” said the ole man to the aforementioned,
“kicking people’s ideas is safer than kicking people,”
then after an adequate pause added,
“And yet again: in some locales it’s safer to kick people.”
 

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One man became so swept up in the concept of being civilized
that he would go out of town whenever he had to spit.


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Every cultural/spiritual move men make is a resisting of the thoughts that
instinctively appear in their mind;
everything men do not directly related to survival is a resisting of thought.
 

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Only ideas can be truly bullet proof (and even them, only if not exposed).
    (“Is this why some say that a man who starts to catch on to what is going on
       begins to curb his tongue?”)
If you do not take your mind for public walks in public
you don’t have to lug along a pooper scooper.
 

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One lad, straining at the limits of adolescence, tugged at the collar of his uniform, unbuttoned his regimental jacket, gazed off into the distance, then spat and said that
he was already beginning to find maturity a distinct imposition .
(Standard maturity, he later said he meant.)

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Biology will not be found to determine psychology

                                as long as psychology announces the findings.
Only the man privately ignited will ever understand what is going on with this.
 
 
 

J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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