A Report On Reticence:
The silence that speaks so forcefully to the alert
is both external and public,
and internal and personal.

 

While poets and philosophers have searched for the
"perfect metaphor,"
the alert have realized that it is right before us:
Things-As-They-Are.

The symbol of a serpent swallowing its own tail
does not represent the culmination of Life --
but Life as it forever is.

Once man left the peace and quiet of paradise and became a thinking creature, he took on a kind of illness, and to help compensate, life provided a form of self-treatment:
constant mental agitation.
"The doctor will see you now."
"Hello, Doc, you've go to help me!"
"Certainly -- just look over there...now over here...
now back over there."
"My God! good Doctor -- I'm cured!"
"I know, my boy, I know. Next."

No matter where, no matter when,
no matter the language, the customs, the culture,
no matter the people's simplicity or sophistication,
what one attributes -- do all of man's many religions ascribe to God (that he is "unchanging").
(Quite a coincidence, huh? Next.)

"Good intentions" should not be knocked in man's unique world, that's all that's possible. (e.g., a beer company advertises that they support "reasonable consumption of their product," but if that were truly one of their concerns they would limit the number of bottles that could be sold to any one individual within a given period of time -- would they not? But they don't -- they can't --good intentions are all that is possible.)
Man's world -- Gotta Love It!

A man asked a mystic, "Is experiencing The Secret like: the-most-fun-you-can-have-with-your-clothes-on?"
And the super-wired-one replied, "How about: the-most-fun-you-can-have-and-still-be-conscious?"
(And the man seemed satisfied...least as much so as is possible for someone in man's normal condition.)

The Political Landscape An Aerial View:
Were it not for the "warring factions," there would be no conceivable whole which would be made up of the factions were they to cease hostilities -- and as obvious and simple as this may be, it is even more so when applied to the normal state of man's mind.

And a reader inquires:
"Did I miss something regarding your comment, 'as obvious and simple as this may be' -- please tell me I did!"