One man had a pet insect that could fly around so fast that he could never catch it. But why did he want to, since it already lived inside him?
Human consciousness is the only entity in the universe that not only can want what it does not have, but can invent wants that it can never have and wallow in them.
Life keeps your plate filled with peas; whether you eat them or not, life endlessly fills your plate with peas. A few people bristle at the arrangement, but there is nothing you can do about it except: not eat them in public, and not digest them in private. (A secret…most of them are indigestible anyway.)
Regardless of their protests to the contrary, ordinary men generally enjoy the frantic rush and relentless, meaningless demands of City Life in the Second Reality, in that it reduces the possibility of them having sufficient free time to ever think about what City Life and thinking are actually about.
Those with no understanding of man’s mind are those who speak of his spirit.
If you have never been to Rio, tell everyone what you imagine about Oz.
J.