Men have long expressed interest in the matter of their "true nature,"
believing they have lost it and would like to return to it,
but the more knowledgeable realize it is in error to look back, and, in fact,
awakening could be described as the discovery of one's new, true nature.

One day one man thought: "I'd like to get back to my roots."
And death suddenly said: "You called?"
And the man was instantly struck by the possibility that this might be so.

To discover paradise, one must leave Eden,
and, to leave, from there one must begin.
To discover paradise, one must leave Eden,
and not just "leave it" but operationally forget that it ever existed.

There was once a clear land upon which a fog fell, one of such magnitude that soon everyone there accepted it as normal...well...not everyone, exactly....

The head of a mystical order one day so said to his listeners: "The Secret is the missing piece in everyone's thinking." And from the audience a voice replied: "Well, that's obvious." To which the speaker responded:
"That's right -- you've got it!"

There was once a planet of robots,
and, to help them develop further,
life provided mechanical birds to sit atop their heads
and give directions.

Terror On The Midway:
Man's normal mental life is like a carousel that,
should it ever stop, would be destroyed.

On one world was once a race of creatures who were each born with an empty billfold,
and their progress was measured by the amount of stuff they managed to put therein.
And most were satisfied with the arrangement, though there were a few "weirdos"
who felt like there was something else possible to do with this birthright.