*image by Ben Harubin

 

To cleave to thoughts not of the immediate here-and-now is to hallucinate --
it is to "see what isn't there."

Additional note regarding the statement that "thought precedes every action":
The body pours, then the mind measures what was poured.

(I did not label this as a rebuttal to the claim, for the mind can never
hear such, and the body does not listen to such.)

Phone lines were run through one man's yard,
in return for which he was allowed to either
notice them or not.

As it peacefully rose and fell, an ocean said to a gull, "Is it great to be
the highest ranking entity on a terrific planet like this, or what?"
And as it soared silently away, the bird thought, "How do the waters know
that they talk, in that when they speak to me I never reply?"

If consciousness is an orchestra, and the mind, its rhythm section, then
listening to the thoughts that naturally run through it is you letting
someone outside your band set the tempos for you.

(Dizzy would roll over in his grave...if dead bodies could move!)
[And upon this idea making its appearance, a man mused, "Hmmm, perhaps
instead of a revamped rhythm section what would go best in my brain would
be a dead body.]

"All-in-all (ask yourself," so lit up the message in the sky,
"what greater proof of stupidity is there than a man taking life seriously?"
"Ask yourself," the message insisted, "before the rains come!"

("Hmmm," says a guy, "that helps explain why even ordinary people are nuts,
yet don't realize it.")