*image by Ben Harubin

 

 

A Rule No One Wants To Know About:
No one is supposed to be any more enlightened
or better than they already are.

The more you believe that you're far from your goal, the more you believe
that you must struggle therefore, and thus the further away you stay -- nay!
-- must stay.
(It's another one of those laws no one seems to know about.)

The trick is: how to get back to yesterday. For everyone has a yesterday
in which they were less thoughtful.

A man looked down at his pedal extremity and said, "My foot is deformed."
Then thought, "And my head is deformed for me to see my foot as such."
(And only he, his foot, and head understood what he had said.)

One man returned home for a visit and had this to say. "What you're all
attempting to do is easy, to let go and to stop it; the hard part is that
there is no way possible to tell one how to do this."

After realizing what's going on, one man thought, "I see now that I was not
foolish, laboring under illusion, or suffering from self-deceit, but simply
mistaken."

One man's favorite phrase is "Stranger things than that are possible."
No matter the occasion, no matter the circumstances, no matter the subject
involved, it's always just this: "Stranger things than that are possible."

The Kind Of Professional Those Of Ordinary Mind Should Never Patronize:
After listening to all of his complaints, and upon the completion of his examination,
a man's physician asked him this.
"Do you prefer to be ill and upset, or well and at peace?"
"Why, well and at peace, of course," the man replied.
"Then why do you remain satisfied being ill and upset?"
"Well, I'm not so satisfied," rejoined the man, "as proven by my many appearances
here in your office."
"No, you have yet to recognize the nature of the reality in which scenes such as this
are played, to not realize that any visit here after the initial one is the proof of your
unwitting acceptance and satisfaction with the world of ills your mind describes."

"The only negative diagnosis possible regarding being a donkey,"
said one donkey to another, "is in being one without knowing it."

Those who do not see this are those referred to as blind and lacking
the recognition of man's full mental potential.

Beyond the realm of words and ills is another world entirely.

After you've clearly seen once that "it's all a balancing act," the
challenge then is to never again put your hands on the balls, but keep them
always in midair.

Oh yeah, and one other thing, once you know that it's all a balancing act,
the way you trip up after that is by ever getting serious about anything
again. It'll kill ya.