One Man's Deeper Reflection On The Myths Representing The Great Hunger & Quest:
If man is naturally to Eden born
and properly in Paris dwells,
then whence cometh these dreams of Istanbul?
(a place never seen, and on no map?)

Man will ask,
"Is any change better than no change at all?"
and,
"Is any instability better than none at all?"
The answers to all such questions are, in truth, the same (which is):
"Any effort, any at all, willfully took, is superior to none
and to just talking about it."

Perhaps there's someone in attendance who'd care
for a more "personalized" telling of an news item:
The primary job of men's so-called "individual personality" is to agitate and rouse the rest of him that doesn't seem to fall within that category.

The seekers of every new generation,
before they discover The Secret,
concoct a new name for it.

 

 

"The reason ordinary people must think as they do is so that the future can have a chance." Perhaps an extension of this thought is: if people did think to their fullest potential, tomorrow could never arrive.

Through excesses of the mind do men make themselves ill,
then turn to their mind for a cure.

While we speak of The Quest as a search for something new that man does not yet possess, the ordinary think of such matters in terms of a desire for something old, some thing they in fact once had but lost, the something specifically being their original, true nature.

While this is understandable, and not indefensible, those-who-know know that you can't go back, and that a more expansive, new "original nature" to a man is possible up ahead.

Every living mystic has within him the pollen
of every mystic who's gone before.

And now a little item for all the budding authors in our audience:
Everyone has at least one work of fiction in them -- their autobiography.