*image by Ben Harubin

 

Noise is noise is noise to machinery
of which the noise is a natural byproduct.

The mind has no preferences in what it thinks, else how to explain the thoughts
that continually run through the minds of the civilized and erudite?

A weekend mystic on a Saturday declared:
"I will not be free until my dog and cat are also free."
And his dog and cat looked at one another, silently sharing the thought,
"Here we go again."

The next day the man saw this story and after much pondering
over what his his pets had meant by that, could come to no conclusion.

The Special Sojourner's Credo Number Two:
Why make yourself look foolish by saying that you want to go to a certain
place when you not only have no idea where it is, but even what it is?

One guy's motto used to be:
"Many things in life are funny...but this is not one of them."
And someone in the crowd shouted:
"Why do you say 'used to be'?"

One man's mood:
"I am almost certain that my greatest present obstacle is in me thinking
of me as being the thoughts that pass through me, and yet, even me
feeling this way, it's still nearly impossible for me to stop."

Another man hearing this pondered:
"How long, with any shred of benefit,
can a man continue to hear the truth repeated over and over again?"

On top of all this, a third man could only drolly muse:
"The mind, the mind...what can I tell you?"