What could be a midget’s grander aspiration than to stand on the shoulders of giants.
    (“Was that the Quote For The Day?”
About quoting, yeah.
     “Pardon me: but if you-don’t-get-it severely enough, does that relieve you from
       having to say that you don’t get it?”)
 
 
 

One man made a mess wherever he went;
the wenting-god finally asked him to just stay home,
but the staying-home-muse would have none of it;
the we’re-all-in-this-together-so-just-shut-up-spirit eventually intervened
and made them all some hot cocoa.
 
 
 

To ever crack the case you must initially take the endeavor to be the most serious
and important thing in your life; soon after that you must undertake an intense investigation of the concepts: serious and important.
 
 
 

One reputed wise man’s latest wiserism:
“Never eat enough to cause you to go to the bathroom,”
and no amount of begging or bribery will get him to tell what he’s really talking about.
 
 
 

Conversation.
”The way to make it rain is ask someone to tell you about their self and as soon as they say the word ‘I’ –  get up and leave the room and soon you’ll have a deluge.”
    “That can’t literally be true.”
“So what!”
 
 
 

One man announced that he is no longer a person but is now a drug company.
 
 
 

“Pa pa, what’s the funniest thing you’ve read recently?”
    “The title of an article: ‘Can Thought Affect Reality?’”
“Pa pa, how much of ordinary men’s humor is intentional.”
    “My boy, even they don’t know.”
 
 
 

Hollywood Hot Tip.
Being what seems to be your normal self is everyone’s role.
    (“Funny  –  I don’t feel like I’m acting?!”
Shows how good you are.)
 
 
 

One man says he has a great rapport with everyone…
“Okay, not everyone  –  just me.                     Happy?!”
 
 
 

Around city construction sites one man always wears a hardhat,
(even though his head appears to be uncovered).
 
 
 

Perhaps the feature humans best have over other animals is that if there is one which is so much stronger than you that you could not possibly defeat it physically, you can still verbally ridicule & abuse it and there is not a damn thing it can do about it.
(Subtracting from the pleasure of the situation, sad to say is of course the fact that it won't care  --  but hey!  --  you can't have everything, right!?)
 
 
 

“Pa pa, what’s the funniest thing you’ve read since the last time I asked you?”
    “That you: ‘Shouldn’t Be Frightened By Poetry’.”
 
 
 

Declares one chap: “Naw –  the best thing about being human and able to speak is that you can warn other people about this, that and whatever.”
 
 
 

During the summer sexual season one knight would frequently say that
he felt like a castle-in-heat.
(Only his thoughts faithful to The Crown didn't understand what he actually meant.)
 
 
 

Fred likes to call his self: The International Fred Bridge in that (he says) he is able to span the distance between unmitigated, total stupidity and the garden variety type.
   The way you can spot a real artist, author or composer is by his willingness,
    even eagerness to explain the meaning of his work.
       One man legally changed his middle name to, Really Bad News, as he says:
      “To give the gods somethin’ to think about before they fuck with me.”
 
 
 

Sometimes one man will look at his self in a mirror and say:
“I need a volunteer for this mind-reading trick  –  how about you sir?”
Another guy periodically grips his forehead tightly in his hand while whispering:
“There is no way I can ever repay my debt to you.”
(Well, it’s something between a whisper and a snarl.)
 
 
 

The Ole Sorehead’s Proverb Update.
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, but teach him to fish
and hopefully he’ll fall overboard and drown.”
 
 
 

One man can make the sound of a mousetrap in his mind.
 
 
 

The most important thing to many people is to appear not to be paying attention.
 
 
 

Warning!  If you don’t describe your motivations and inner world, someone else may  –  and they might get it right!
 
 
 

When he began this journey, one man believed that tomorrow-is-another-day  –
now he’s not so sure.
 
 
 

Once he fully appreciated the ramifications of gravity, one man hated to move things, (which gave the Universe a good laugh…
well it might have if the Universe had a sense of humor….a sense of beauty, maybe, but humor seems to be limited to Life).
 
 
 

True to his macho code, one man took his death well.
 
 
 

From a granted acute perspective, the more seriously you take man’s second-reality, (spirituality, political & social philosophy, his culture in toto) the crazier you are.
 
 
 

Definition.
Staring: A reliable marker of your normalcy.
 
 
 

One man says: “Under ordinary conditions my consciousness’ relationship to the thoughts Life provides it is like the henpecked husband who said that HE always has the last word in his house: ‘Yes Dear.’ ”
 
 
 

Everything ultimately resolves itself, whether you, ole dear, see it or not.
 
 
 

Almost anything a normal human might say, do or think can be a hindrance in the certain man's attempt to crack the case.                         (Note that the word is: can.)
 
 
 

The older men get, the more surely each morning does the force of
ordinary contrariness call their name at work line-up.
 
 

Ordinary gurus and spiritual-teachers do not in fact want their followers to
know-the-truth since they themselves do not.
 
 
 

The nervous-system-rebel must eventually recognize that the true magic & mystery
is within you  –  the proclaimed outer displays of such are but sideshows to entertain children and sidetrack the foolish.
 
 
 

In The Equation: I + Not-I = Everything, some feel that “I” is 90% of the formula while others feel the “Not-I” to be the major component;
the special investigator however eventually realizes that only everything = everything.
 
 
 

A consciousness that understands what's-going-on has fun with words
but does not allow reciprocation.
 
 
 

When you’re just nominally alive, life seems an imposition.
 
 

A Curious Chain.
The most important thing to a civilized man is his personality, and the main component of his personality consists of him telling how he feels about all manner of intangible matters, and no one feels any particular way about such things until they hear their
own tongue or brain express it.
(AKA: No one has an opinion about anything until they think about it.)
 
 
 

No matter how many times it is done: no amount of multiplying an illusion
will turn it into reality.
(This simplest of facts trips up even experienced mathematicians.)
 
 

Medical treatments that may extend the life of those with certain illnesses,
but which make their present life miserable present a most vexing dilemma  –
but only to an outsider  –  not to the person involved.
    (Isn't anyone going to ask what in the world this could have to do with trying to get to the bottom of things!?)
 
 
 

Regardless Of Words  –   How Things Are.
Forget about patriotism, political, religious, social or any other cause,
whenever war is declared, men rush to join.
 
 
 

Civilization entails making things more complex;
waking-up consists of the opposite.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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