"One cannot tell by the results, what
the cause is. This is often true. Don’t mistake one
for the other. For example, when you are feeling anxiety,
that does not mean there are things to worry about. And
when you are feeling spiritual, that doesn’t mean
what you experience is any more profound than when you
are feeling profane. ‘And when you are feeling
Rikkity’... CT, put the muzzle back on.
‘What.’ Lock it. ‘O, yes... mmmm.’
Good. CT, how were the cookies? ‘Mmmm.’
“People get cause and effect confused. And even more
get cause and affect confused... and don’t
even start with effect and affect!
“Just because the stove is hot, doesn’t mean
you are cooking. O such pith!” (2/11/2006 - O#68)
"Ah, gracious: Now there’s
a word--full of possibilities, coupled with safety and
allure. An invitation to the universal YES, with
assurance of benevolence. Who could ask for anything
more.” (3/10/2006 - O#69)
"I like al fresco. Al’s a great
spirit. So, is it different in nature? Where isn’t
it in nature.
“People keep assuming it’s nature, but
it’s really people’s changed perspectives. I
wonder if a forest ranger takes a vacation to Times
Square and says ‘Ah, I can relax and see the larger
picture.’ To us the sea is the beckoning horizon,
but to a sailor it’s work. There is no place in the
physical world with more meaning than another...
‘except for that one.’ CT!” (9/27/2007 -
O#70)
"Ah
holidays, days with a choice built in. We can use them as
a time to recollect how much we’ve lost in life--the
empty chairs at the table, the storied people from
before, how much we miss them, and how life isn’t
like it used to be. Or we can choose to celebrate how our
lives have been touched by love and meaning, and
how--even if we sit down to a table by ourselves--we are
never again truly alone. And if we sit down to a table by
our elves... well, duh. ‘Hi.’
“I and we... and even they... are amazed, but not
amused, by how people take such opportunities to focus on
the empty, not the full. Hey, if you have to miss someone
on Thanksgiving, miss Stalin or Hitler, but don’t
miss the ones who loved and cared and filled, for they
and their loving, caring, and filling are not
gone--unless you act as if they are.
“Genghis Khan we’re not sure
about. The Khan family might find them memorable. 'Hey,
set a place for Uncle Genghis... or else he’ll take
it anyway.'
“So, I want you should feast and celebrate.
Can’t get rid of us with something as trifling as
death! That’s my holiday message. ‘Hey,
I’ll give you one.’ One what. ‘A holiday
massage.’ O, CT, you rub me the right way!”
(11/20/2007 - O#71)
"We are
all projections of information--both our physical and
spiritual elves. Otherwise, this communication would not
be possible.
"We are manifested in many ways. But manifestations
of what? 'Ectoplasm.’ No, CT! ‘Endoplasm?’
*tap tap tap* ‘Plasma.’ Well yes, at times we
are plasma, but plasma is a projection.
“How about anti-jection: You are what you are not.
No, let’s not go there. Not shadows; shadows are
what you are, too. Anti-jections are the absences in the
fabric of being if you are not. But then being is not being
in the same way. It’s a Wonderful Life: He was not his absence,
nor was his being defined by his absence, but
his absence was.
“There is no such thing as no such thing. You
can’t point to being and say ‘See,
there’s what’s missing,’ like a jigsaw
puzzle that has been around too long. Because if you are
living in a living matrix of being, then there are no
empty spaces. See, that’s what the grieving need to
come to realize. If you don’t set an extra place at
the table, there is no empty seat. Being is always whole
and complete. It is just our perception that it’s
not. Careful now, I did not say 'it snot.'
“And anyone who comes out the other side of change
knows this. What was would have been different
and seemed incomplete with someone or something missing,
but they weren’t. And now it is just as complete,
but with a changed cast of characters and things and wee
wittle whatevers which slowly darken at dusk.
“Reality is always quicker than perception. And
Mighty Mouse is faster than Persephone. ‘Here he comes to save the day.’" (3/1/2008 - O#72)
“People who live by the ups and downs of life never
realize how far along they’ve traveled.”
(9/18/2008 - O#73)
“Laughter
is always in the present! Whoa, that’s a
big one.” (5/29/2010 - O#74)
“Neutrinos: Can’t live with
‘em and can’t live without ‘em--the
necessary intrusion of other existences, so we
aren’t isolated. An existence without enigmas would
have no future, because it would interact only with
itself.
“So, those neutrinos. How come no car has been named
a Neutrino. The new Ford Neutrino, essential to your
travels but impossible to ticket. ‘Officer, did you
see it.’ ‘Yes, it was going very fast but when
I tried to pull it over, it was gone. Damn.’
“Just love what glues existence but isn’t
really there. Sort of like reason. And in some
other iteration, the neutrino world is perplexed by
electrons: ‘We know they have energy, but we
can’t figure for what. They’re just
there.’ And so, Bob slowly drifted from existence to
existence, hardly noticing when electrons replaced
neutrinos. But give him a burger with mustard on it and
he would rail against astrology. That’s it,
folks.” (10/18/2010 - O#75)
Question from Matt: Has the choice of another
lifetime come up?
“I get many offers--some of them about spending
lifetimes. I refuse them all. I like surprises. A bird in
the hand is worth a fistful of shit... and tiny little
bones.
“And don’t accept any doors that open
themselves for you, but wait for the ones to which you
have the key.” (1/3/2011 - O#76)
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