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

Part 13 of 13

96020701 Immersion in the invisible.
96020702 You don’t have to learn if you don’t want to. If you want to learn, immersion helps.
96021501 Most days, most minutes, our actions, words, thoughts say implicitly, "I am shit." So profound is our denial of the invisible.
96072001 We have it backwards: the willing suspension of belief.
96100101 All is mystery, for verbal us.
96101601 Verbal us benefits from frequent, paradoxical reminders of mystery.
96101801 All is one, whether we like it or not—and of course we don’t and haven’t for a very long time. No matter.
96101801 A goodly part of wisdom is knowing how, when, and to what extent to keep the world at bay.
96101901 My brother, the booger.
96101902 In the Eastern texts, for "emptiness" or "void", read "serenity," or "unio mystica."
96102001 We, the 10,000 things, all are returning all the time. Verbal us can never know where to. We can ease the trip.
96102701 Is any rock less than perfect?
96110401 Leave the jungle. Learn to play in the meadow.
96112901 I am in love with the world. But my love has the quality of an adolescent’s crush. I want to marry and fuck the world. It of course will not, can not respond.
96121504 Heart’s desire: to learn to love this world, and let it go.
96122901 Vis à vis the "media culture," the internet, the Web, we are like Carpenter World View primitives seeing a photograph for the first time.
97020401 Of a morning I return from invisible realms, with only this booty.
The vast particularity exceeds all clever counting.
Which negates this Little as it confirms that Much.
97021701 Blindly surrounded by the ten thousand things, I complain of the lack of a teacher.
97021702 The degree of cleverness of science in descrying "laws" of nature is exceeded only by the degree of blindness of science in viewing the totality of nature.
97022001 The ecstasy of sex is as nothing compared to
97022701 My faith is nothing compared to that of the builders of ancient chapels On Mediterranean islands and Chinese mountains.
97030301 The window, the door, open; I, knowing this, stand facing the wall. Why?
97030302 The juggernaut of discrimination.
97030303 The veil of celebrity.

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