Story for Saturday:
One man asked his mind to shut up.
He asked it nicely,
Then not so nicely.
One man asked his mind to shut up.

 

 

Only children believe that they're sick.
(Need I remind you of most people's pre-pubic age!?)

Winter Tales:
When skeet season is over,
The simple begin taking shots at one another,
And when climatically driven indoors,
at themselves.

And a reader asks:
"Are you going to spend the time necessary again to tell us this has more to do with man's mental operations than it does the tracking of clay pigeons!?"
(Though I'm at a loss as to what he perceives to be the distinction!?!)

One man got tired of the merry-go-round-of-his-mind,
and, (as far as he could tell), replaced the horses with
figures of Pegasus.
He then imagined himself a mystic.

The king told his oldest son, "Round up all those lay about, useless thoughts, and line 'em up and shoot them!"
But the prince knew that was all wasted effort...well...not so much "wasted" as....
"unnecessary-if-you-know-what-you're-doing."
And a wandering seeker asked himself,
"Why are all mystical schools built on the sides of mountains? The slippery, slopery, unstable sides!?!"

Other than the money changers of the world,
two groups direct traffic:
Those who wave you on through the intersection,
And those who signal for you to stop.

The mirage of routine city life,
Is such that most people never see the first group,
And even if they do -- and follow their directions
They end up feeling as guilty and dissatisfied as had they not.
This is why real mystical trekers must always end up on the sloping side of their own head
Whereas, they're enlightened regarding the proper architectural foundation for additional adult education.
Alone in the shower, a man thought, "What could be more useless than the general babbling of man!?" And as he washed behind his ears, answered, "Any specific talk regarding higher states of awareness." And as he put down the soap, further reflected, "And yet no harm done in either instance when you see what's involved."
And he turned off the water and stepped from the stall.

There was once a band of explorers
Who believed they'd discovered the head waters to
all the planet's rivers and oceans.
They decided to try and dam it up,
They decided that such would be a good thing.
When they found this to be impossible they decided that the next best thing would be then to analyze their discovery.
"Yes, that's it," (they said)
"We will simply think about it!
That's just as good -- it's almost the same thing."
...And yes, soon -- it did come to be.

As Columbus started to climb into bed his girlfriend said,
"Wipe off the bottoms of your feet first."
And with a degree of astonishment he glanced down and replied, "Why, I didn't realize I had bottoms to my feet."

On his pre-planned tombstone one man had inscribed the epitaph:
"The Mind Giveth, And The Mind Taketh Away!
(But it Mainly Taketh!)"

All airplanes are born on autopilot,
And most die never knowing
any other condition.