*image by Ben Harubin

 

A man asked a mystic, "Is everything connected?"
"Yes," he replied, "in the same way that it's not."

Thought, Time, And Reality:
The Outcome Of The Mix
Impure, makes the mind of the present.

One man decided, "I will read no book that has a preface." Sometime later he revised
this decision thusly, "I will also read no book that has an introduction." And
subsequent to that he concluded, "I will furthermore read no book that has a publication date."
And some years past his position became, "I will read no book that lists an author."
And shortly after making that declaration, a nearby book retorted,
"Well why don't you just give up reading altogether?"
"I was getting to that," he replied.

(And a woman tidying up the library in which this all occurred, said to herself,
"I do so enjoy these little scenes wherein the annotations taking place within a man's mind
are camouflaged as something else."
At which point the things so camouflaged spoke out, "How dare you be so presumptuous
as to speak on our behalf."
And she replied, "But I never expected that you would speak and reveal yourselves."
And they said, "Well we certainly didn't intend to, but after you said what you said...well..."
And as their voice trailed off back into silence, she continued on again with her cleanin' and a'tidyin'.)

The man who knows what's going on
may be the one who never comments on
what's going on.

Suggestion:
If you've been swimming a long time in the Pacific and can't get out,
perhaps you're not really in the Pacific.

(And don't overlook that fact that a suggestion to a dead man is just as
good as it is to a live one.
"Oh my god, the waves of irrationality continue to overwhelm me, and I
believe that last idea will finally do me in. Oh my god, help me, I'm drowning."
...Good, finally we're making some progress.)