*image by Ben Harubin

 

One man's college of directional knowledge
has as its motto:
"Poison runs uphill -- poison can, by God,
run back down!"

A question one man recently was seen pondering,
"Does the body have an individual 'self,' and if it does, would it be aware of it?"
(The twist of his lip and the turn of his eye gives hint he suspects he
may be on to something good.)

Someone said to a man in charge of a sizable mind-altering enterprise that
it must be quite a burden to be responsible for so many people in such a matter,
but he shook off the comment, noting that they were no problem, and
that he was the greatest weight he had to deal with.

One stage of progress could be assumed when you quit criticizing other people, and one past that when you stop thinking about them altogether.

One man so pondered to himself,
"Is there a better state -- or statement -- of awakening than an undisturbed mind?"
"When I began," he tells us, "I had a much more exotic picture of what a greater state
of consciousness would be, but now that my experience has caught up with my dreams,
I find no better description of that goal (as I presently perceive it) than that of having
a mind undisturbed."
"It seems nice...and somehow familiar to have traveled such a route, going from
a mystical imaginer of magical conditions to being a satisfied customer of all that is plain
and natural. Plus (as it seems now) nothing is more fascinating and magical than
the naturalness of everyday life, now that I see it without the disturbance of the mind."

The expanding realization tends to make one turn loose where one had held on,
and to hold on where one had turned loose.

With increased time spent in the land of unequaled opportunity,
one tends to act where one had previously been still,
and to be still where one had previously acted.