At one of the great Court banquets where everyone sat according to his rank while awaiting the appearance of the King, a plain, shabbily dressed man entered the hall and took a seat above everyone else. His boldness angered the Prime Minister who demanded that he identify himself and acknowledge if he were a vizier. The stranger replied that he ( Read more... )

"The person who makes all cares into one care

the care for simply staying present

will be cared for by that presence

which is creative love."

-Kabir

A passenger was completely lost between the decks of a great Atlantic liner. He finally ran into a steward and asked for help in finding his cabin.

"What was the number of your cabin, sir?" asked the steward.
"I couldn't tell you, but I'd know it at once because it had a lighthouse outside the porthole."

The small man

Builds cages for everyone

He

Knows.

While the sage,

Who has to duck his head

When the moon is low,

Keeps dropping keys all night long

For the

Beautiful

Rowdy

Prisoners.

-Hafiz

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"In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guild drew a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, coinciding point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography saw the vast Map to be Useless and permitted it to decay and fray under the Sun and winters ( Read more... )

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"One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he suddenly interrupted the lesson in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase. He muttered that he just had to eat something, and he asked the students on the seats in the front row, if they would also like a biscuit. A few students took ( Read more... )

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"Compunction is the disease of a whore-eating taikonaut buzzed-up on bioengineered mollusc amphetamine and bullsnot." -- Colonel Sanders, connoisseur of fine chickens and ladies.


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