Perception is Reality

On The Edge Of

The question is not, 'Should you conform or rebel?' it's, 'Why do you even feel, in the first place, that life must involve doing what others demand of you?" This year, you get a chance to free yourself from a thankless task; a duty performed out of misplaced loyalty and an involvement that is becoming a life-sentence. Always let your conscience be your guide. But don't let it be your prison guard.

Corpse Paint

I think that I am on to something big. I feel change in the air. Sometimes a few simple words are better than a thousand. I am making a commitment to post on this blog every single day, in effort to find some progressive continuity in my life. If you ask what the significance is, I'd say that now that I've put it out into the universe, I can't very well take it back. Things are changing; perception is changing.

Cottleston Pie

While sitting on the banks of the P'u River, Chuang-tse was approached by two representatives of the Prince Ch'u, who offered him a position at court. Chuang-tse watched the water flowing by as if he had not heard. Finally, he remarked, "I am told that the Prince has a sacred tortoise, over two thousand years old, which is kept in a box, wrapped in silk and brocade." "That is true," the officials replied. "If the tortoise had been given a choice," Chuang-tse continued, "which do you think he would have liked better -- to have been alive in the mud, or dead within the palace?" "To have been alive in the mud, of course," the men answered. "I too prefer the mud," said Chuang-tse. "Good-bye."

Omnipotence

Omniscience