The speaker declared: "Only the gods -- not men -- are capable of criticizing man."
And from the audience someone said: "But, for that to have an equitable basis, not only must men be able to imagine the gods, but also the gods able to imagine man -- and of that we have no evidence."

Unrequested Corollary To An Earlier News Item:
To ordinary thinking, an "expert" is always someone else;
only to a mystic is it himself -- he has no choice -- it must be.

First guy says: "Adequate aggression can compensate for a multitude of deficiencies."
And second guy says: "Like intelligence?"
To which first guy replies: "That, above all."

One day a man said to a mystic:
"I have heard it said that a wise man should not converse with kings."
And the mystic replied: "That is so."
And the man continued: "I have also heard it said that a wise man should not converse with fools."
And the mystic replied: "That too is so."
And the man asked: "Does that cover it?"
And the mystic replied: "Not quite, and here's the rest of it:
a wise man shouldn't be talking to anybody."
("Oh," said the man sheepishly and somewhat knowingly.)

Another view of "The Problem With Trying To Talk About The Cure Of The Secret":
Those who don't think they're sick don't want to hear about it,
and those, who think they are, are too sick to benefit from it.

"Gad Zukas!" gushed a beaming Hippocrates, "had I known the joy awaiting me therein,
I would have gone directly into medicine and not wasted those years in the Peace Corps."

A man once asked a mystic, "If it is important to see 'the obvious,' yet seems so difficult to do so,
what's the trick?" And the rambunctious one replied, "One is to take things, as you see them now, and reverse 'em." "Ooooh!" shivered the man erotically and somewhat knowingly.

"The Evolution Of Things" as per one man:
First you get to where you can't hardly stand to hear other people talk,
then you get to where you can't hardly stand to read anything they've written,
then you get to where you can't hardly stand even being around them,
then you get to where you can't hardly stand just being alive
then, if you can make it past that,
you may have a chance.

Another example of "How Life Actually Works":
Although the mind is not wired up to see things this directly,
the most important thing to becoming a successful author is to
have a really good typewriter or word processor.

A man asked a mystic:
"How much would it take to get you to tell me what you really, privately think about life"
And the mystic just laughed.

A man asked a mystic:
"How much would it take to get you to tell me what you really, privately think of life?"
And the mystic replied: "It's a shame I can't take your money, but I couldn't do it for any amount,
for there's not enough money available to compensate me for the damage I'd do myself if I did."