*image by Ben Harubin

(Speaking non physically):
People have got to be hurt before you can believe you should help them,
and you've (speaking non physically) got to be seriously injured yourself to ever
believe that others are hurt and need your help.
...(Life does allow the deaf to assist the blind, and the blind to help the lame,
and the lame to aid the dumb -- just to help keep 'em all outta mischief.)

Shifting tactics, the head of one mystical school instructed that whenever he gave lectures regarding the awakening and their efforts toward that end, that all of the monks should laugh at him and dismiss his words, saying to themselves, "Hah! -- that cannot be so."
(And try it from there for a while.)

Affairs On One Strange Planet:
The short creatures don't give a damn for the tall ones,
and think they're smart-ass know-it-alls,
while the tall creatures think that the reason the short ones
are less advanced is because they're not tall.
...(You know, affairs on all worlds where the creatures think are "strange.")

A man asked a mystic, "Does 'strange' make the world go 'round?"
"From a mental view, yes," he replied, "along with the lubrication of irony."

Could it not be potentially dangerous to assume (with no investigation) that the "you" in you that is interested in awakening and seeks to overcome or banish the other "you's" in you who are not interested is somehow more "real" than they are?

Men who insist that words have objective meaning are the foundations of collective reality.

After years of trying to overcome himself,
one man began to awaken every morning thinking,
"I've been drugged!"