On better worlds, men’s minds are directly connected to life with no intermediate links.
You have to feel sorry for ordinary people, when the most memorable experience they say they ever have is becoming a parent, or facing death. Neither one is requiring individual effort. To dispatch your own self and then give birth to a new version thereof – now there is an experience worthy of a life.
A son again asked his father:
“What is the difference between the King and the Prime Minister?”
“The King is just a public figure head and The Prime Minister actually runs the state.”
“Ah!” thought the lad to himself: “Same as how thoughts make a man feel that he is in control, when the truth lies elsewhere.”
Everyone’s King talks, their Prime Minister acts, and a Court is not complete without them both. (Although the Jester added that it is best when everyone has their right job, and understands their individual responsibilities…what a kidder.)
To Know The Secret is to understand religion as cannot all the priests in the world; and to understand art as cannot all of the painters; and to understand politics as cannot all of the world’s leaders, and literature as cannot all the writers who ever lived combined.
Question: Do you think that this is telling you something about a person who Knows The Secret, or is it clearly revealing something right before your eyes about something else entirely?
(Hint: Something else.)
J,