Between body’s instinctive, essential desires and mind’s wants is an expensive-to-ignore nexus. Write down and fold next to your soul the fact: nouns won’t fly – only verbs. It is ridiculous enough for those seeking to get off the ground to not see the irrelevance of wants, but to ignore their specious kinship to actual bombing sites is too laughable to allow them to even climb on board.
The great Doing The Thing plane does not do sightseeing flights, (you have to take a bus for that). To get your own individual plane off the ground, (which is the only way you’ll ever get off), you don’t want anything and then there IS nothing that can stop you. Don’t forget, “You trainees in the back there, looking groggy, like you been smoking old army boots again,” a man who can mentally see-for-himself realizes that the wants that normally occupy all the space in his thinking are transparently irrelevant to him when looked at head on with the sang froid natural to a real warrior (that is, one who knows what the hell he’s doing).
All in all young troopers: taking away from nothing costs nothing – except the illusion that it was costing you something to hold on to it. Inside of everybody is another person. Inside of every hand is another hand. Inside of every prince is another prince. But none of this becomes so until you hear it said – until your MIND hears it said. One man’s favorite pastime is killing off fictional characters, (though he does not think of it in these words).
Now before we go out there men, a little something extra for you REAL men. Mentally, if you didn’t want to be different, your present condition would mean nothing to you. You wouldn’t even be interested in it enough to notice it, much less be chewing up the scenery wanting to change it. Fact is: if you simply had a better comprehension of your present condition, your feelings about it would be completely different. (Which is of course to say: your condition’s feelings about itself would be completely different…which of course makes no sense…which of course is why it was put like it was in the first place.)
And a nailed down hand cried out in shock: “What other hand?!?!?” If you have no imaginary wants, then nothing has any power over you. Nothing imaginary that is, including quixotic goals. “Okay people, your real targets are clearly marked on the maps. Now fly out there; do your duty, drop your loads and be done with it. I don’t want anyone returning who is not completely empty. Swallow your fear and hesitation and put yourself in your own stomach. Now let’s roll. Comment cava, Lieutenant – que pasa?”
J.