“Be here now” is familiar spiritual advice. To live in the timeless present is to be one with the One, to know God … or at least have a simpler, happier life. Ah, there’s always the rub of intention. Can’t try, can’t think, can’t conceptualize your way to true nowness. Indeed, if you overthink “here” Read More …
But Circular Reasoning 2 wasn’t quite right, I thought, because hands aren’t part of the inner loops. So how to convey a tortured soul whose mind was spinning in circles. Like this loopy intuitive result. Hope I’m not spoiling it by talking about it. Feel free to use these cartoons, by the way … as long Read More …
But the thought balloon version of “Circular Reasoning 1” doesn’t quite express how much we torture our thoughts and ourselves to get our ideas of ourselves to fit. Here’s a second attempt. A lot of logic is circular. Say I’m mean to people who I think are mean to me. That makes them upset, which lets Read More …
I wanted to illustrate the illusion of self-concept. Are we who we imagine ourselves to be? Especially if we’re imagining ourselves imagining ourselves? And what if it doesn’t stop there?
Boredom is peace with an edge. “All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone,” wrote Blaise Pascal in Pensees. What keeps people from truly being in touch with their deepest selves is that feeling we call boredom. But don’t avoid it. Embrace it. Wait. That edge of fear, disgust or pain that Read More …
we’ve have more to go around.
I wrote these lyrics some time ago and I don’t know why. So, yes, certainly, somebody feel free, if you agree, to steal these lyrics and turn them into a song. It’s only love, don’t you care … Just ordinary, boring love … It’s only love, for those who dare feel ordinary, boring love Sure Read More …
This isn’t an idea, it’s a plea. Anybody out there ever hear of an X Swami X who spoke at UCLA back in the early ’70s? Of course, I’m contacting UCLA as well. But this guy was a riot. Profane but profound. The guru of the blue view. Took “Make Love Not War” right to Read More …
Just suppose carrots could jump into your shopping cart. Or apples could climb down from the tree. Or tomatoes could flick away some insect pests. Would you still eat them? It’s easy to think of plant food as dead or at least unconscious, because, well, it is. But suppose by some mechanical / genetic / robotic Read More …
Know why nothing is absolute? (Or as metaphysicians might say, “Nothing is Everything.” Bad cosmic joke.) Because each of us has two infinite halves. (Go with me … this isn’t meant as fact.) Maybe multiple infinite halves. Take mind and soul. Can you love a person with all your soul and but not all your Read More …
Being wrong is a sign of thinking. Lie detector tests should be called lie-detector guessers. Greatness, if it exists, is the product of ordinary things done right. Someday, someone will patent a process for writing patents.
It’s kind of a popup desktop utility. You call up “Today’s Scoresheet.” Helped someone? Hurt someone? Check boxes. Double, triple check for double, triple points. Then some fancy graphics (gotta illustrate this*) and presto, your Instant Karma Meter tells you whether you’ve been bad or good, going to Heaven or Hell, and might be on Read More …
“Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not?” — Robert F. Kennedy “Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why bother?” — My cynical side? (Or my side that dreams quotes that Read More …
There’s more to this ‘Secret’ stuff than wishful thinking, I’m finding out. Sorting out your desires is a very tricky thing. Do I love puzzles for their beauty, or to prove to myself I’m smart? How many neurotic desires lurk in us, sabotaging our time and success? Just thinking about what to ask for (even Read More …
When I was beach bum in California, and lived with the ducks along the Venice canals, I’d hear this buzzing sound at night. It was coming from a nearby house. It sounded like whirring sci-fi equipment, like Dr. Frankstein was turning dead body parts into a movie, stuffed with Igor’s poorly chosen brain. Or like some Read More …