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    Genie in a bottle, world’s first wino









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    Quote “Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia.”
    — Max Lucado
    Catch 22: Fear of amnesia
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    The Bottle

    The Lamp



    neti-neti
    Not this, not that
    Not this, not this
    Not that, not that
    Not Not

    Everything, a naughty knot not

    Everything will be all too happy to tell you what is up (or down), don’t you let them (it).




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    Quote Keep your head together
    And call my name out loud
    Soon you'll hear me knockin' at your door

    - Carole King
    Might be led to think it’s all a bit Pollyanna-ish or Panglossian-ish

    I mean, who believes in a protagonist from a 1913 novel by Eleanor Porter?

    Or

    A Dr. Pangloss from Voltaire's Candide?

    Best of all possible worlds

    Interestingly coined by the German polymath and Enlightenment philosopher Gottfried Leibniz

    Pollyanna and Polymath have quite a lineage.



    From one Traveler of infinity to another…..


    Let’s do this!




    The great thing about Infinity: There is no time to be busy.

    D O G reflected on this and disagrees
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    FEEL the Rhythm with all (your) sense

    Dance

    After all, it is your (life) rhythm
    So Dance!

    Celebrate Life!

    Absolutely nothing greater to celebrate than LIFE!

    Light the night on fire!













    'Celebrate' - Scrabble those letters, have them dance:

    Berate Cel

    Virus: Berated Cell

    No?

    A post is a type of cell, berate this! :D

    ..............................................................................

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    Call Me

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    Peace does not come from seeing the light, it is the Light





    Quote “Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.”
    — Mooji
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    Light is Light, right?


    Technically that’s true

    Some places it’s refractory

    Black sun, symbolic of refractory light









    Refraction travel far and wide.




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    {{If matter/ body can be blackened in any permanent way, it was never matter (immaterial) to begin with}}

    If who you are can be changed by the opinions, the perception of mind whether yours or another it was not you to begin with.

    Sol niger as far as the I can see.

    Black sun be damned.





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    False Dichotomy

    (With) No real enemy – a 'battle' is technically already lost.

    Battle lost, a let down? Goes to show the mind tendency towards…….duel/ number two. (Left/ Right Brain)

    Crap!

    No worries. Imagine an enemy but do try to forget the imaginary part. After all, the victory over said enemy will be, of course, imaginary otherwise.

    What is an imaginary hero? A comedian? Just a thought..............



    Superman and Wonder Woman doing laundry. They're roomies, those two, don't you know.



    Superman picking …. a fight?

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    Showdown







    Will you win?



    Victor? Depends on what constitutes victory.



    Principles:
    1) Sometimes when you win, you lose
    2) Sometimes when you lose, you win



    These (two) principles do not fit well when the expectation of victory via cards held (royal flush, have you?).






    With a royal flush one is certain to believe such a claim is blasphemy.



    Blasphemy? Okay.
    See principle 1

    (But) Do not despair
    See principle 2

    Not to get too excited
    See principle 1








    ..........................



    She says:
    ???



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    WAR, what is it good for?

    When you root for the underdog and realize it's the dog in disguise.









    What was that?

    What was what?
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    .



    I believe in everyday magic
    Not hard, not hard at all to do
    All it takes …….. open the I


    .


    If I can offer any advice (in this moment, right here, right now) it is this….

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    Silence is a lesson no one talks about
    Think about that

    Never mind

    Lesson initiated

    What lesson was that again?

    Lesson 1: Manifestation.
    Lesson 2: See lesson 1

    Lesson pointless without error
    Master Instruction: Master Mistake

    How perfect is that?

    Quote “When the student is ready the teacher/ master appears.”






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    Quote Posted by O Donna (here)
    Silence is a lesson no one talks about
    What came to mind is Benjamin Franklin's 2nd of 13 virtues:

    Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
    Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it. ~ Conor C. O'Brien [1917-2oo8]

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    Quote Posted by JackMcThorn (here)
    Quote Posted by O Donna (here)
    Silence is a lesson no one talks about
    What came to mind is Benjamin Franklin's 2nd of 13 virtues:

    Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
    What that does not address is how deep that ‘trifling conversation’ goes. Anyone in serious conversation will of course deny it for themselves.


    Followed by..... not me.

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    Everything is never one thing or another, no matter how it appears.





    Definitely Full Ass no matter how half assed it seems.
    To come all this way and not full ass it. That’s crazy talk. Dare I say…. Trivial conversation.



    Quote A little more bite and a little less bark
    A little less fight and a little more spark
    Close your mouth and open up your heart

    Everything resides in silence
    Silence resides in everything

    Everything ends in silence,
    Issues forth everything
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    Magic of Recursive Life

    Live Lives
    Become Lives
    Forget Lives

    Live Lives....







    A rose by any other name....

    Quote “When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
    ― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society
    Quote You must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular, even though the herd may go, "That's baaaaad." Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
    ― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society
    Take the road less traveled because the rest are taken by the walking dead.
    (Just kidding)

    Probably tired of my post by now.
    Too bad
    "Life is suffering"

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    Familiar Breeds Contempt



    Great thing about amnesia,
    Strangeness, embraced
    It starves off contempt, killer/ suppresser of the fountain of youth



    What would want to do that? Propagate darkness?

    (Finding positive standing at the fork): Offers the opportunity to find the fountain (again)


    Taking you on the road whether you like it or not (pro tip, you’ll like it)



    Heard it all before? Not like this, you haven’t. Listen again.
    (Remember the zombies? They took the well-worn road, perhaps reasoning that people beat feet to gold)

    Quote The Road Not Taken
    BY ROBERT FROST
    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    (Would Frost be Frost had not taken the road of true wonder? That would have been a shame)







    Would you like some sunny, honey?
    (Gifts come in the most truly unexpected places)
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    If silence could perceive, would it find sound a threat? Only if silence is silence because sound is sound. Silence rules without a second, which is to say it has no rules. Boring, lifeless, dark.

    Could you make out these words, these letters, without silence between? Engagement (sound) found a threat to silence, approval via a deafening one-hand clapping.

    And what about words?
    Words???

    What is the favorite word of Kings to their subjects?
    SILENCE!
    When kings have the last word, there is no defense.
    Compete censorship has no dissent unless allowed for appearance sake.

    Wrong? Off with my head!

    Tyranny, insidious, just ask the frog that's been in hot water for some time.
    (Looks over to frog for a reply)

    Well, there goes my defense.

    < Nevermind >



    SOUND!

    Discovery: Part III

    Quote What can this thing be that I found?


    (Peace) Silence from sound, who knew?
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    Choice
    Always picking one even if that ends up being the (other) one. Picking one over one mathematically expressed as 1/1 = 1



    If the option is noise vs. silence, I choose both.
    Limitation, illusion

    (Sound/ silence) Qualifying individual as limitation so why limit the illusion, which only serves to deepen and already deep plot. (One step and your already in it)



    Either a compelling story in its own right.

    Quote Oh, I kept the first for another day!

    -- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
    Time has its way of forcing a choice.
    Both simultaneously?
    That will require something different, something special.
    Singularity, though to be honest, it may have already left the room…

    Quote When you suddenly realize your child left the room and you are left watching Sesame Street by yourself.
    What are you watching?



    If life is not smiling at and with you right now,

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    All known gods are imprisoned, conceptually speaking. Followers identify.

    Quote “We are all Negan”
    - The Walking Dead
    Like sees Like

    List of true escapees shall not be advertised. Must maintain the illusion of inescapability.

    Known escapees mislabeled, more accurately transfers.
    It is important for the institution to create false hope.
    False hope functions like false dichotomy, which perpetuates the sentence.

    Quote You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!
    - Eagles: Hotel California
    If you are reading this from any version (of prison), it’s not what you think.

    Quote "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will."

    - Law of Thelema: formulated by Aleister Crowley in 1904 in The Book of the Law
    Freedom/ prison are ultimately devices of the mind.



    When you first saw that picture, more than likely thought of a prisoner. Theoretically, just as likely to be a visitor/ other.

    A jailer employed by a prison is in prison for a particular duration. A particular sentence.

    Take what is said with a grain of salt. Ultimately no smarter nor ignorant then the reader.
    Had too a bite or three of the karma apple.

    Just like everyone else, have suspicions as to why here (at all). However, since here, why not hear a story?

    We all like stories for time to time. Figure if you’ve read this far, you like it at least….. ? a little?

    ………………………….

    A type of prison reminds of

    Quote “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way who nods at them and says, “Morning boys, how’s the water?”
    And the two young fish swim on for a bit and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”
    - David Foster Wallace


    “Morning readers, how’s the prison?”
    (Remember, in the analogy, the greeter is also in the water)

    “What the hell is prison?”
    (Been on both sides of this conversation and STILL on both)


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