*image by Ben Harubin

An ordinary man will pursue activities that he believes will make him a "better person."
While the Few undertake a Struggle that may simply make them a person.

Once, while on a visit to a far side of the universe, I overheard one star tell another,
"You're certainly on the red side of the spectrum, considering your size." And the other
one replied, "Yes, but who ever expected silver futures to plummet so near the end of the year."
Don't look at me -- I didn't understand it either.

Can you begin to realize just a little by now that anything the mind can say is
"somehow true." Can you begin to realize at first, the danger in this, and later,
the joyful relief? Anything the mind can say is "somehow true."

There was once a man who thought, "If only I had a million dollars,
I just know I'd be a more popular and completed person."
Well, can you believe it: One day his dream was granted and it
turned out that he was partially right. But some years later it-struck-him
and he thought: "You know, partially just won't get it."

The struggle to evolve eventually becomes, "You against the world,"
but not from some imagined anger, but from a positive hunger.

I once met a man whose name was "The Liberating Silence at the Heart of Things."
At least I think that was his name... for to tell you the truth,
he never would speak to me.