*image by Ben Harubin

 

Shall We Discuss Success?...Success, Did You Say?
Definition from The Land Of True Freedom:
The destruction of a promising musical career -- Having a hit record
which you must thereafter forever perform.

And now for some news of a totally different sort:
After losing part of his sensibility in the fire, the man developed what
came to be known as "the phantom alarm syndrome" whereby he heard the
warning beeps of a nonexistent smoke detector. Hmmm..."Having a
hit record which you must thereafter forever perform"...hmmm...give me
that land of "true" freedom, which would be a state of unconditional
freedom -- liberation even from success.

You start a fire with a match -- and then the fire consumes the match!
What d'ya make of that?

A witness sitting ringside finally thought,
"This fight should've been stopped long ago."

"Remember This," announced a billboard by the road on the way to a secret monastery,
"There Are Always Two Levels Of Mystical Activity Going On Wherever You Find
The Activity Going On: One Level Is The Talking And Thinking About It; And The Other
Is Neither Of Those Two, But Solely Of The Doing It."
"Do -- Please Do -- Try And Remember This, For So Few People Do.
Thank You For Your Attention, And Drive Haphazardly As You Watch For The
Turn-Off Sign Up Ahead."

As purveyed by one afterlife myth, as soon as you expire you find yourself
in line to face the Ultimate Judge, and when it comes your turn to enter the
Big Court Room an angel by the door cautions you to "watch your step," and
if you show any sign that these words effected your movements you're
instantly turned away and sent to Goethe-knows-where!

To know-what-you're-doing,
you've got to know what you're doing
no matter what life you're in.

Things "have meaning" only to those who THINK meaning,
and the "meaning" is no more substantial and permanent than
are the thoughts on which it is based.

The true and unseen "meaning of things" is known only to those
freed from thinking about their meaning.