*image by Ben Harubin

As he stood before the oracle's cubicle awaiting a supernatural message,
one man nervously shifted from foot to foot until the voice of the great one said to him,
"Be still!"
And the man replied, "I have to go to the bathroom."
And the oracle said, "Well go to the bathroom then!"
And the man said, "It won't help."
According to legend, this event did not actually happen, but rather is a story
told as a test to see how much you understand about -- well, you know -- this and that.

Insofar as how some people find the automatic flow of their thoughts troublesome,
here's one way to deal with it:
Don't pay any attention to them.
...(The crucial word here is "any.")

And after he thought about it, a reader wrote to say "thanks for nuthin'!"
And certainly a big ole Texas "you're more than welcome!" in return.

"I wanna be free! I wanna be free!"
Everybody wants to be free, but nobody knows from what,
and those who say they do,
mislead the rest.
"Maybe," says one guy, "but I still wanna be free."

One man, given to mortal musing, so pondered:
"What if death is the ONLY liberation? Bet that'd change a lotta mystics' tunes."

Those who believe that "it's always something"
always have something to believe in.