*image by Ben Harubin

Figure This Out:
You can't insult a ghost,
but you can those who believe in ghosts.
...A race of creatures walking on thin air.

"We await the redeeming arrival of The Mystical Patriarch," they said.
Who are those so distorted in their understanding as to expect to ever see
The sight of a carrousel committing suicide?

Only thought can have it both ways -- or just this way, or just that way, or
any way that it wants -- and only those awakened to the nature of thought
can have life just as it is, right before their eyes with no mental commentary
required.

 

Whenever this one man would punch himself with his left hand, his right one
would comfort him. This may sound strange, but everyone does it -- it just
goes under another name.

 

You could hear the voice serenely singing,
"Oh, I'm swimming in a sea of sorrow."
And someone on shore yelled to them,
"No, you're not, you're swimming in a sea of thought."
And from the waters the voice called back,
"Then why do I feel this sorrow?"
"You still don't get it, dear stroker, you don't have a salt-water clue."

How all of you logic lovers could be more alert:
Don't tag after any cause that produces an effect,
and don't look for one for any effect already present.

Trains continued to run through his house,
but he learned to mostly overlook them.