*image by Ben Harubin

 

 

When your efforts seem to be their least profitable
is when you should be
doubling and tripling your efforts.
It is during such periods that unrestrained,
indiscriminate
"beating up on yourself" is permissible.

 

A man with some enlightened knowledge of internal meteorology may,
Under desperate conditions, resort to such otherwise desperate actions as
firing his pistol at an oncoming hurricane.

Only those who know-what-to-do truly know what to do, which at times can
be so bizarre as to be best kept quiet and to themselves.

Remember boys and girls, if what you're pondering makes sense, you're in a
world of dreams wherein sense is irrelevant.

A man asked himself, "Am I intelligent?" Then thought, "Compared to who?"
And further pondered, "The only way to measure intelligence is compared to all
other men...who know nothing conclusive themselves, thus the question remains,
am I intelligent?" "Or better put, is anyone intelligent? No wait, better put than that,
is there even such a thing as what we call mental intelligence?"
...(After all of that, what normally passes for his intelligence told him he should
go lie down and cool off.)

One mystic gave his view:
"Enlightenment is easy to describe.
It's being free from all that you've ever been."

As soon as you ask someone else what you should do (regarding behavior)
you're off on the wrong foot entirely.

A man unsure how to live physically has no future in any other realm.