Another Thing You Can Count On:
The struggle to be other than your true nature
is now man's true nature.

 

There are two forms possible of the inner dialogue:
either you talking to you, or life talking to you.
They are, in fact, one-in-the-same;
it is one's perception of the conversation that allows it to be seen in dual potential.

Since it is plain to anyone that mortal existence is one of change; the body changes (it's born, it grows, it dies), and the mind is always in a state of change. Then, whatever is the infinite stillness and stability experienced in extended states of consciousness? It must have its origins somewhere beyond the immediate physical environs to which men normally look.

A really good question:
"Why should anyone undertake this 'Quest' you keep talking about? Don't we have enough problems as it is?"

And certain man pondered, "When it comes to the ingredients necessary to run my normal thinking, should I be most concerned about drug overload or drug under-load? And, hmmmmm...am I sure I'd presently recognize the difference?"

When the mind of an ordinary man runs out of something to think, it will begin to yammer on about God.
When the mind of the more alert runs out of something to think, it'll say,
"Thank God!"

Man is like a two-story barn
in which squirrels populate the upper floors,
and hippos, the lower.

 

A reader sends this note:
"I am getting pret-tee well sick of your fables concerning man! I am not a cow, I am not a sheep, I am not a wolf, a lion, a squirrel, or a hippo, I am a man, by God and a man I shall remain -- regardless of anything you might say!"
(And I'm sure he will.)