*image by Ben Harubin

The most pathetic words ever spoken by man or woman:
Role Model

One man says he's discovered how you can stay awake continually:
You continually ask yourself if you're awake, and viola! there you are.

From the Earth, one day, went up a cry to the sky:
"I didn't know you were gonna get serious!"

Later, from the sky, came a cry back to Earth:
"I didn't know you were gonna get serious."

If you think that anything outside the primary level is essential,
you will believe that thinking is essential.

(Are you beginning to catch on?)

First voice to second voice:
"Say, wasn't it you who first said timing is everything?"
And second voice replies: "It was me who first said everything!"
(And a passing third voice said: "Who were those unidentified voices?")

A mystic said to a man who'd asked questions about the matter,
"If a man-who-knows says there is no such thing as enlightenment, he does not mean
that there is no such as enlightenment, he means that there is no such thing
as enlightenment as you think it is."
But the man objected, "But he doesn't know what I think it is."
And the mystic replied, "All right, have it your way."