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toby philpott last updated: 07 December, 2007 |
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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
One
makes oneself a visionary
Once, during a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage, the judge asked, "Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?" Mae West answered, "On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin' my best to conceal it."
I am free of all prejudice, I hate everyone equally. W.C.Fields
When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female . . . then shall you enter the kingdom. Gospel According to Thomas
There is a sadness which grows from the seeds of remembered happiness; there is a weariness which springs unrequested from the remembered fountains of youth; there is a nostalgia conjured from faraway places and gone people and moments which have long since ticked into the infinite fog." - from Danger's
Child (Sexton Blake Library no.487) 1961
80. (you can maybe guess that I am getting old and unadventurous - or just trying to learn to settle down) * Why are people called Buddhas After they die? Because they don't grumble any more, Because they don't make a nuisance of themselves any more. Ikkyu Zen and Zen Classics selections from R.H.Blyth p 112 Have a little fun a little fun Make a little money Do a little good
Alan Miller quoted by Robert Anton Wilson on the wonderful new set of tapes I got from Amazon "Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything or Old Bob Exposes His Ignorance"
We can't ALL be solipsists!
"I needed a drink. I needed a lot of life insurance. I needed a vacation. I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat, and a gun." Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe
Since everything is but an apparition Perfect in being what it is, Having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, We may well burst out in laughter. Long-chenpa
This is what you should do: love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labour to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what
insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall become a great poem.
Walt Whitman
"Counterpoints of anthropologists in less specialized cultures include shamans, tricksters, clowns and kind-fools. These figures, like professional anthropologists, doubt the absoluteness of their own culture." James Boon "Other Tribes; Other Scribes" 1982
" To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity. Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know. And yet those with the courage to tread this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to set about it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged in the frantic diversions, and to conform with the deadening personal opinions, which are being continually thrust upon them." THE LAWS OF FORM G. Spencer Brown
"There is nothing. There is no God and no universe, there is only empty space, and in it a lost and homeless and wandering and companionless and indestructible Thought. And I am that Thought. And God, and the Universe, and Time, and Life, and Death, and Joy and Sorrow and Pain only a grotesque and brutal dream, evolved from the frantic imagination of that same Thought." Mark Twain - a freethinking atheist - feeling a little solipsistic after his wife died.
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