Pop Quiz for 2010: Quick!
What holds reality together?
That's right, taking it seriously -- nothing less,
and nothing more.
...(Now aren't you glad I asked?)

Common Spiritual Beliefs Update:
Back in one kingdom, a man once stopped & asked himself:
"Besides all matters of physical life-&-death,
what is there that actually impacts men's lives that does not come from thinking?"
At first glance, he thought this far too simple to be of value -- then giving it a wider "look-see" -- he wasn't quite sure.

And a fan writes:
"As regards matters such as you have just mentioned again, the potentially broad -- extremely broad -- effect thinking has on man, I ask you: Are there not limits to this suggested situation?"

Yes, indeed, there are two: the illusionary, collective one of death; and the secret, private one of the mystics, who disassemble it while still alive.

And someone else contacts us to say: "It bothers me much when you, of all people, use the word 'illusionary'! I do wish you would not do so, for in your case, I'm not at all sure
what you mean by it -- and fear to imagine!"

How It Goes:
The simple worry about behavior;
the more sophisticated worry about the behavior of the simple,
while anyone with "half-the-sight-that-God-gave-an-alley-cat"
can see that it's all ultimately a shadow play,
put on for the benefit of the hand puppets casting the silhouettes
who periodically interrupt the proceedings with their cute though futile attempts to
pat-themselves-on-the-back for such a well-done job of authorship.

This just in: :
"Are you just trying to make me feel helpless and impotent?
...that is, more so than I do already?"

On one world was once a race of creatures who believed that just over the horizon always lay trouble, but they were eventually overtaken and replaced by those who believed that just thinking that there is, is sufficient.
...And as the original group was fading from the scene, they were absolutely unable to understand why this change was occurring.

The tenseness possible in the mind
makes that of the body look like amateur night.

The ordinary take the proverb: "it's easy for a full man to dismiss a hungry one" to be a comment about charity, while the more conscious see it to be about unacceptable aspects of aging.

An Advanced Travel Tip
It's not only hard to go anywhere when you don't know where you're going,
but furthermore hard to know where you're going if
if you're not actually going anywhere.
...And upon hearing this, a man in line at the ticket counter held his head and said:
"I feel a stress attack surely coming on."