*image by Ben Harubin

The ONLY reason that words make sense
is because words and events are in accord.

All great kingdoms eventually fall because of their lookouts turning their sight outward.
"It is the implosion that is to be guarded against," cautioned the king.
Mystical travel agencies were set up for those too tired to go anywhere,
yet too stupid to stay home.

Things don't happen that you don't like,
things happen in your mind that you don't like.
People don't mistreat you,
people in your mind mistreat you.
You're not asleep and in captivity -- you're just in your mind.

One man named his life "In Here and Out There,"
then turned himself inside out and pretended to be a Mobius strip.

A man asked a mystic, "How do you know that you're awake?"
"Your eyes are open," he replied.
"Naw," said the man, "I'm serious. Okay, how can you tell that you're enlightened?"
"It's not dark where you are," the mystic replied.
"Ah, come on," whined the man. "All right, how do you know when you're liberated?"
"You can go anywhere you want to," replied the mystic.
And the man gave up -- either frustrated (I assume), or enlightened (perhaps).

A'Talkin' and A'Doin':
You can talk plainly, or you can talk vaguely,
but you can only DO plainly.