Now some Sports News:
If man is a game, then two playing fields are laid out within him.

Guide to News Update:
Among ordinary people, bad news is more popular than good for the same reason that they find it almost impossible to say anything positive about man.
Show me a man who can appreciate a myth of an encouraging nature,
and I'll show you a man who misunderstood the myth.

In a relaxed moment, after the last meal one night, the head monk so said to a younger one:
"There are actually only two reasons to ever talk about the lives ordinary men lead
one is as a reflective device to highlight some specific point,
and the other is to just kill time 'til your listeners
are ready to hear what you really want to talk about."

And now some more Sports News:
If man is a game, then two playing fields are laid out within him
not counting the additional three extant in mystics.

The simple see death as death,
the more sophisticated try and view it as a metaphor for something else,
and then the more conscious know it to be both what it is and something else.

Man's Unrecorded Fight Song:
You can listen to your belly,
or you can listen to your head,
but, one way or the other,
your belly's gonna win.
(That is, if you're at all sane.)

One guy squeaked when he walked,
and one guy squeaked when he talked,
and between them both kept every cat in the house occupied.

Math For Mystics:
No matter how high you count -- it's not high enough.

Then there was this man who was mystical only on alternate days,
who finally inquired of himself:
"Is it weirder being more conscious,
or being ordinary?"