*image by Ben Harubin

 

 

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.

To ever be extraordinary, you must first be ordinary.
(And that's the name of that foot.)

One man says his most promising present area of inquiry is in asking himself,
"Are my genes as connected to external conditions as seem my thoughts?"
Oooh, what a query: In the struggle between hormones and neurons, in bouts
sanctioned by civilization, neurons are favored to win, while off in the private
lives of the few, a total reexamination of the situation is under way.

Within that misjudged conflict, the more awake do not seek a victory,
but rather a neutralization.

There are three levels regarding enlightenment:
the first level is when you want it, but aren't sure what it is, which leads to frustration;
the second level is when you've had some taste of enlightenment but can't hold on to
it, which produces double frustration;
and then the third level of enlightenment, which is post-apocalyptic, and can only occur
after you are completely destroyed and silent.
This is why so little is heard from those most enlightened.

A traveling salesman once asked a mystic, "Why do you so often use the words
'little' and 'seldom' when what you obviously mean is 'none' and 'never'?"
...(And the mystic, being the enlightened dude he was, said nothing.)