*image by Ben Harubin

There was once a race of creatures who were unconcerned, and unaware that they were.
Then one of them began to experience periodic feelings of concern, along with the desire
to have these feelings consistently -- but he found he could only be concerned
when he remembered to be...which proved to be seldom.
And this inability to remember bothered him greatly,
and a struggle to overcome it became the focus of his life.
Then, after many years of effort, he was finally able to constantly remember to be concerned,
but just as soon as he was able to do this he became unconcerned again! -- but this time knowingly.

Only the blind see irony -- for there are no nonsequential consequences,
no anomalous connections,
no unauthorized combinations;
everything fits perfectly --
every nut and bolt,
every tongue and groove,
every hand and glove, all fit perfectly,
by gawd -- fit perfectly, as intended.

There is a machine that men can have which they can run by will,
or which will run by itself.
...And a leopard whined, "Aw, men have all the fun."
And a hippo muttered, "I wouldn't bet on that."

In one of his daily talks, the head of a monastery said to the monks:
"If you listen to me, you'll never be free,
but if you listen to you, you'll also stay trapped."
As they disassembled, one monk thought:
"I sure hope I'm just in a parable."

A man asked life to "Do me just one favor."
To which life replied, "Can a lunch pail decide which victuals it'll carry?"
And when the man said he didn't understand that, life said,
"Then substitute the word 'mind' for 'lunch pail.'"

People who think that some things are true and some not,
have two homes,
but can live in neither.
Oh so much,
but oh so little,
embarrassing wealth that never gets spent.