A Sojourn Into
Man’s Land of Proverbs & Aphorisms,
Wherein Its
Conventional Wisdom Is Stirred, Shaken, Held Up To The Light,
And Rearranged
To Be More Relevant For Those Not Made Wise By The Conventional
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Ordinary
men recognize the cause of everyone's actions -- save
their own.
Saying
is one thing -- doing another;
doing
is one thing -- knowing what you're doing is another;
knowing
what you're saying and
doing is something not even on the chart.
Life
On The Beach.
A
man who wants to get a tan and fails -- will despise
one who succeeds.
(At
least fish -- even the dumbest ones – never get sunburned.)
Not
understanding themselves are ordinary men driven to be noisy about others.
Hearing
an ordinary man give his explanation/opinion of why another person
says/does
what they do is like hearing a hen trying to describe a tornado --
from
the inside.
One
man's take on societal hierarchy (or perhaps something else):
“There
are always those above you,
and
always those below you,
but
only you can be next
to you -- I'm talking: REALLY next to you!”
If
the food’s not much -- the cook doesn’t lick his fingers:
the
thought of the man-who-knows keeps its fingers in its mouth.
When
one man came across the ancient idea: “Better to be happy than wise,”
it
put his normal mental activity out of action for a fortnight,
and
the rest of his nervous system damn near in traction!
Fast
understand -- fast forget.
(Entitled:
The
Most Curious & Inexplicable Style Of The Man-Who-Knows.)
And
another guy offers a variation on an earlier theme:
“There
is always someone worse off than you,
and
always someone better off than you,
but
there is only you
to get OFF of you.”
When
one neural knight heard it said:
“We
often give our enemies the means of our own destruction,” he reacted:
“Where'd
they get this: often!?”
There
is no thrashing profitable to the certain man -- save by his own
rod.
The
ordinary have said that he is lifeless who is faultless,
but
for the few: only he is alive who understands the nature of
fault.
The
insight needed by the few can creep
where
the ordinary find it cannot march.
Things
not done don’t have to be undone
(same
with thoughts and thinking).
The
billboard with no message is the enlightened man.
Conversation
1.
“If
you can’t see it -- you can’t want it.”
“You’re speaking of things material?”
“Well......yes.”
“Ignoring completely, men’s cultural/spiritual/intellectual worlds.”
Only
in dreams does a man hunger for that which can’t be eaten --
and
only the man-who-knows is free from this desire.
Whilst
indulging in yummies a patient said:
“A
dying man likes his sweets."
Medical
Note.
Only
one specialized diagnostician knows when the real
end has come & how it tastes.
Woe
to he who has but one thought:
all
men’s minds commence with but one thought.
(Pst! -- do you get it?)
Only
beautiful women and those not sure they are constantly pose and solicit:
“Do
I really
look good?”
To
give the creatures in his charge a sense of security, one god nicknamed
himself:
The
Ultimate Big Dick.
The
world’s best mirror is an awake man’s mind.
Ask
thy purse what thou shouldst buy, and your aim, what you should think about.
If
it were not for your own sleep & stupidity
you
wouldn’t enjoy so much finding it in others.
An
hour of regret lasts for as long as you remember it.
Irony
is a cataract in the eye of the sleeping.
Some
are learned -- some are clever;
how
the man-who-knows got what he knows -- no one knows.
God
help the rich! -- the
poor know how to beg;
no
one aids the certain man (for reasons you surely
understand).
Guessing
can be potent -- knowing is omnipotent.
Ordinary
men learn what they need to about life soon --
no
one knows when an enlightened man does.
Every
ass loves to hear himself bray -- and will pretend to enjoy
hearing others --
if
they will pretend to enjoy hearing him.
All
god’s creatures understand the concept of reciprocity -- in
inane affairs.
All
light has some shadow -- save one.
Interrupts
one man:
“It’s
time for some proverb clean-up (for example): the one that says:
‘He
does not believe who does not live according to his belief’ --
is a bald face lie.
There!
-- I feel better -- we can now move on.”
If
as ‘tis claimed: “Confession is good for the soul” --
it’s
city folks they're referring to;
ain’t
a single thing a rebel can say about his self that does anything but harm.
Tongues
of idle minds are never idle.
Stupidity
has only age -- no death.
Conversation
2.
“Three
things are destiny: your mate, your profession/trade, your death.”
“Four: the size of your consciousness.”
“I
was trying to keep the conversation light.”
Praise
for their sleeping folly makes ordinary men even more foolish,
but
can snap an awakened man from a snooze.
Nothing
startles an elephant like the schmoozing of a flea.
Want
of originality is for the few worse than leprosy,
(Groonwault’s paroxysm even.)
Explaining
yourself is condemning yourself -- turned inside out.
Forgetting
-- as in: forgetting your previous ignorance --
is
the sweetest of bittersweet joys.
Has
been said that a man should choose a wife by his ear rather than his eye,
as
also should his consciousness, ideas.
Virtue
is its own reward -- in
the land of the imaginary;
the
struggle to awaken -- in the real
world.
What
sleep conceals -- the certain man’s effort reveals.
A
word to the ordinarily wise is always sufficient -- to
cause him to want more....
.....and
more.....and more words.
The
truth dwells not in the tongue.
Conversation
3.
“Health
is not valued until sickness comes -- if you’re a dolt!”
“You mean for not appreciating health when you had it?”
“No,
for admitting you’re sick when sickness comes.”
All
men’s sleep goes well -- as long as they do not remember it
otherwise.
Hope
is as cheap as despair,
and
knowing as affordable as guessing.
Stones
in the pathway personally offend no one,
and
only ideas do the dense.
A
standard sized consciousness is never without woe.
Because
is the proof of ordinary minds.
Natural
folly is tolerable -- but not that acquired in the name of
knowledge.
Mouths
driven by empty minds are never empty of words.
The
more laws concerning behavior -- the more offenders;
the
more laws concerning thought -- the more dunces.
The
only revenge profitable to the certain man
is
his forgetting of an idea that one time riled him.
No
additional enemy needs a man of normal sized consciousness.
Every
problem is doubled when you sleep.
Suspicions
speak -- knowing is silent.
To
unconventionally expanded consciousness:
everything
pauses -- everything permutes -- everything perishes
--
and
it is all forgotten.
Art
consists of bringing something new into existence:
the
certain man’s consciousness is
his art.
The
frustration of the mystery lasts but an hour --
the
enjoyment of its solving -- a lifetime.
To think the thoughts common to man is to be always wrong.
The weak admire -- the resolute obtain.
He with ordinary consciousness is forever needlessly a captive.
J
A
good proverb is just as good in reverse as it is in its original form
--
same
as how an awakened man’s mind looks the same no matter which way it’s turned.
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