*image by Ben Harubin

 

 

Since this universe is a whole, it cannot dance with itself. For that it
produced a creature who thinks, man, and thus the dance began.

One self-discovered prisoner would thus remind himself:
"If you can't seem to presently stop and shut up, you can at least slow down."
"This is always possible," he'd say to himself, "and always appropriate, my struggle."

In that internal, talk-filled world, the busier a man, the more entrapped he be,
and the busier be a busy man, the less awareness ever has he of his confinement.

Birds in cages
stay unrebellious
by being bedazzled by mirrors.

Those seeking enlightenment must not mistake the pleasures of the mind
for profits of the mind -- for there are none.

One man's wrestled language down to this spot on the mat. "Words are good
for two purposes only: one is to explain to others my experiences; and
secondly is to tell them what I know that is profitable, which is that words
are meaningless, with the two exceptions just noted."