Said a boy to his grandfather who was dying after a lengthy illness:
“I have been most informed  and touched by the way you’ve handled death:
not speaking of it to me  --  but only of life,”
    “The same,” he replied, “as should you do with yourself.”
 

Erotic Metaphysical News.
Trying to wake-up is a form of prolonging the climax of mental death.
 

Verbal Field Day.
“An enlightened man will always take the time to sign autographs and talk to his fans.”
   “Any particular reason?”
“Because he has none.............let me refine that:
The more awake a man is, the fewer fans he has.”
   “Any chance you’re saying that because you consider yourself awake,
     yet have no fans clamoring for your autograph?”
“Wow!  --  you' re proving quite a surprise.”
 

Anyone who says that from reading the writings of a man they feel like they
truly know what the man was has no grasp on what life and man is about.
 

Conversation.
“There’s one thing worse than being let down by the judicial system:
being let down by the medical system.”
    “Yeah  --  but there’s one still worse than that.”
 

Fact.
"The world’s oldest living person” is fooling everyone.
    (“And I’ll give you a fact: I don’t the hell get it.”
Hey --  two facts for the price of one.)
 

The harsh words exchanged between competing political parties
are the harmless yapping of the king’s lap doggies.
    ("Somehow I feel  that is a proffered symbolic applicant for my own mind.")
 

Reading gravely the epitaphs on headstones in a cemetery a man critically mused:
“It is some conceit: summing up a man’s life in a couple of words,”
“Yeah,” injected an overturned vase of tulips on the adjoining grave,
“something that a man does to himself during his life
by the way he conducts his life."
 

More Politics.
Patriotism is religion for men in a really manly mood.
 

If you are in a relationship so frustrating that you say:
“I don’t know what you want from me,”
and if you are a person struggling to awaken,
take that same approach with you and what it is you believe you're struggling with.
    (“By the way [if you’re interested] I double hell don't get this one.”)
 

Psychological Update.
If the sins of your fathers is the cause of your problems  --  get used to ‘em shorty.
Reminder: For incurable ills there are no cures,
(sorry, of course that should read: improbable ills.)
 

Nutrition Update.
When you eat  --  always over eat (except obviously, when you’re consuming a fast.)
 

Tongue Update.
If you’re ordinary  --  all you can talk about is what ordinary people talk about.
(“Y” for: Yuk!)
 

Men who keep diaries which contain the word, “I”
have nothing about them worth remembering.
 

Medical Update.
The best thing you can do for your immune system
is to be immune to meaningless thoughts.
 

One characteristic of a man who’s realized what is really going on with life
is he never apologizes for his past.
 

Genetics Update.
Men by nature are programmed to mentally attack one another;
another reason trying to wake-up is an unnatural act.
 

Commonly do you hear that moving forward vigorously is information-technology, with nary a mention of just plain old info.
The Spiritual/Cultural/Metaphysical Gift Basket.
When you know the contents don’t exist  --  why not emphasize the container.
The ultimate in risk-management consists of man’s collective beliefs.
(“How civil: Even idiot cows are safe inside the herd.    Moo!”)
The Great Intelligentsia Game.
Why not play winner-take-all when there IS no “all” there.
 

Everyone who believes there is a small group of men running the world
detests them and wants them stopped;
their take also is that the conspirators somehow manage to keep most people from believing there is one, a trick they secretly admire and want to learn to duplicate
before the conspirators are crushed.
No one despises a tyrant like those wanting to replace him.
    (“I suppose I could relay this bit of info on to the rebellious part of my mind, couldn’t I.”)
Cows dream that if they could take control of the train,
they’d run over Oscar Mayer and all the Hormel Brothers
which would somehow (ex post facto) save the lives of long dead cattle.
In the hearts of the collective, nothing calls quite like Chicago.
    “I regret that I can die but once in the bosom of my multiplied self,”
(translation:) This speaks to the usual fate of the few potentially-independent neurons in a person’s brain.
 

Fifth Estate News (For Imbibing Stringers With Large Bottle Tastes).
Offers one reporter: "The problem with the news as reported in the city is that
all of the stories are about idiots."
 

One man anticipates taking advantage of a: “30 Day Supply”
when he only has thirty days left.
    (“If you can’t come out good  --  at least try to come out even,” says he.)
 

The Unfaced Nexus Twixt Mind And Rockhard Reality.
You can know all the words in a medical dictionary
but still not be able to practice medicine,
while if you know all the pertinent terms of a religion, you can be a  jam-up priest.
    (“Neat! --  that could come in handy  --  but seriously:
       what should that tell me about  --  oh, never mind  --
       I don’t think I want to get into that just now.”)
 

The certain blindness of man’s intelligence of interest to the few is contained in such statements as: “Through scientific study, we now know how the body keeps us alive,” when the fact is: Life keeps itself alive (and us for a while, individually).
    (The reality of life itself being alive continues to confound even the city's most learned.)
 

Under prolonged questioning he finally admitted to being: “Part of a campaign.”
Moral: Not all answers have value.
 

Dialogue.
“I’ve learned a lot while listening to other people talk.”
    “You mean: from listening to them talk.”
“I said what I meant.”
 

A father said to a son:
“To respond to the question of: ‘Why do you do what you do?’
would be absolute proof of something peculiar about you,
(which by now I don’t have to specify  --   do I?)” --
and this time ‘round at least, the kid was alert enough not to answer.