The Blue Book:
Notes on the Ends of Millennia
by Temple Duciel

Part 12 of 13

95033101 Even the most trapped escape into the freedom of the night. Hitler also slept.
95051201 If you believe in the lost, the found has little meaning.
95052701 What have you done today to please the invisible audience?
95053001 The internal classroom. The invisible classroom.
95053002 Metaphysical health, disease. Our tantrums, many of which we call "success" or "failure." Our pouting or shouting silences, many of which we call "war" or "art". How many of us dutifully attend class every day even when our progress is slow? Our psychotic episodes, many of which we call "religion" or "business" or "education." Our childish, fear-filled, self-centered fantasies, many of which we call "science."
95060101 We are such metaphysical litterbugs.
95070801 The blind leading the deaf leading the lame leading the paralyzed leading the leprous leading the rational leading the rational leading the rational.
95071408 What you need to give up is the habit of needing to give up the habit.
95072101 In whose time do trees grow slowly?
95072201 If this is the dark, think what the light must be like.
95072301 Paralyzed by culture, we, incredibly, sink and drown, sink and drown, in this rich and buoyant sea.
95072501 If this is the light, think what the dark must be like.
95080701 We are metaphysically starved, starving.
95080702 We are adults still listening to metaphysical fairy tales. Here, science is no better than religion.
95081501 What is the opposite of gravity? Joy.
95082901 Go to school. A system of protection is in place there. Crossing guards exist.
95082902 The good news is that things are mute. The bad news is that we think they are therefore dumb. Free, infinitely patient, incessant teachers. But so subtle. Oh boy.
95083001 The ego at first fears it is presiding over its own funeral.
95090301 All this even, especially, in sadness.
95113001 Today I opened a window on infinity, and was told not to look. What did I not see not looking through the not window? Shall I tell you?

Not much.

95120701 The method of the tao—this violent universe—is softness? Yes, considering how egregious our behavior is.
95120702 Language is possibly, probably only learning wheels.
95120901 The body, too.
96011501 Approach and enter the invisible. Otherwise, the little that gets done is ultimately futile.
96020101 Consider learning to wean yourself from the culture.

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