A speaker in city park declaimed:
“We live in perilous times my friends  –  perilous times indeed!”
And a fellow under an unbleached pine tree called him aside and said:
    “Consider my friend: there are but three possibilities:
      either live in perilous times; don’t be alive, or don’t live in perilous times,”
to which the speaker responded:
“Your first two choices I clearly can perceive, but the third (though alien)
is yet intriguing; how might such be pursued?”
and the man under the tree just smiled for a moment  --  then said:
    “The nervous-system-rebel has certain brain cells that know a certain something
      to which others appear oblivious.
“‘Appear’ can sure be a tricky word.”
    “Yes, and captious too.”
“And don’t forget, camouflagous.”
 
 
 

A father said to a son:
“Without questions, you can learn nothing,
and without the right type of questions, you still can’t.”
    “But how do you know which are the right type?”
“Seems an impossible task, huh?!           (And, ha ha.)”
 
 
 

As he left the chapel after morning vapors,
a general replaced his hat  –  sucked in his fat  –
assumed the thoughtful military stance and mused:
“Better to submit my head to local verbal battering than be subjected to a bad haircut by foreigners.”
Red circuit men know instinctively on which side real  bread is always buttered.
 
 
 

For the certain man, without intelligent aggression  –  there is nothing.
 
 
 

Things that can be a dead giveaway to the man with the independent consciousness can just be dead to others.
 
 
 

If you know how: having fun can be as informative as being instructed.
(The trick is: you have to be completely in charge of it.)
 
 
 

The proper treatment for some ills is a kind touch & reassuring word;
for others – neglect,
and to heal-thyself you must be familiar with both.
 
 
 

Said a father to a son:  “As regards the relative value of, aspects vs. people,
remember this: without the presence of humans –  coincidence is nothing.”
 
 
 

Inefficient t-cells will allow cancer cells to settle into the body, and inattentive
brain cells will allow irrelevant ideas to settle into consciousness  --
when they should be directing the t-cells to attack the mutant growths.
What a brain! –  what a country!  –  what a life!
 
 
 

One yellow circuit chap says he can think much better when
he doesn’t do it like everyone else does.
 
 
 

Concerning  Memories & The Nervous System Rebel.
Those who remember things that have happened to them  –  remember too much.
 
 
 

Question: What is wrong with the following sentence:
“There is nothing wrong with this sentence.”
 
 
 

Questions that have any guts are all trick questions.
Said one voice:
“What I want are manly questions!  –  questions that’ll slap you around
and make you stand up straight and focus your attention!
Them’s MY kinda questions!”
 
 
 

Only the foolish talk of freedom:
the certain man thinks in terms of non alignment.
 
 
 

Regarding The Human Drama.
You can come in during the middle of a play and it won’t matter     (not if a human wrote it).
 
 
 

Ordinary consciousness speaks foolishly of being totally free;
the certain man recognizes the availability of relative independence
via mental non alignment:
privately closing the book on the meaningless drama that normally never ends.
 
 
 

Apropos Appearance & Responsibility.
Beauty has no duty  –  and that is the beauty of it.
(“And also why all heroes are ugly,” suggests a passing pigeon.)
 
 
 

Men who write paeans in praise of another human being might consider
some of the various over-the-counter drugs available.
 
 
 

A man in whom the blue circuit was prominent mentioned that
he emotionally feels much better when he doesn’t allow himself to feel like
his nervous system wants him to.
 
 
 

(And speaking of heroes): On another world is a warrior chieftain so intimidating
that he has dared his life to ever end on him.  (And thus far the threat has worked.)
 
 
 

Each man has a daily babble-quotient which life expects him to meet.
 
 
 

Let's Hear It For The Oft Overlooked, Obvious.
Any problem you have physically is not due to dead ancestors, gods,
curses or bad karma  --  but cells.
 
 
 

A man is only truly dumb when he takes his dumb thoughts to be his thoughts.
 
 

Uh Oh!  --  They're Back!
Any difficulties you have mentally are not due to your parents, social pressures,
or low self esteem  --  but cells.
 
 

One man declared: “I’ve about had it with cells!”
(And his mused: “What a dumb thing to say.”)
 
 
 

A gigantic tri colored snake with four heads got into one man’s house --
and he didn’t know what to do about it.