They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep him. What you should have done instead of trying to kill yourself would have been, take your son away from your wife -- it's the law in California that a minor child must remain with his father until there is a court order to the contrary. And then you should have lightly struck your wife with a rolled-up newspaper or a phonebook. This is a mournful discovery. 1) Those who agree with you are insane. 2) Those who do not agree with you are in power. One god there is, in no way like mortal creatures either in bodily form or in the thought of his mind. The whole of him sees, the whole of him thinks, the whole of him hears. He stays always motionless in the same place; it is not right -- ' Certain biologists and naturalists have speculated that higher forms of mimicry might exist, since lower forms -- which is to say, forms which fool those intended to be fooled but not us -- have been found all over the world. He hadn't iced Syrian assassins by regarding the cosmos as a sentient entelechy with psyche and soma, a macrocosmic mirror to man the microcosm. The creator deity," Fat said, "may be insane and therefore the universe is insane. What we experience as chaos is actually irrationality. There is a difference." He was silent, then. "The universe is what you make of it," Maurice said. "It's what you do with it that counts. It's your responsibility to do something life-promoting with it, not life-destructive. Thanatos can assume any form it wishes; it can kill eros, the life drive, and then simulate it. Once thanatos does this to you, you are in big trouble; you suppose you are driven by eros but it is thanatos wearing a mask." paperbag advice.( to be stamped on the side of all paperbags) side A. Blow into this paperbag go home and stop grinning at everyone. side B. If the boss sits there and accuses you of stealing, of not having the right motivation, dont just sit there and take it, hit the fucker in the face. The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows--a wall against the wind. A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must flow with the process, must join it and flow with it. Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? What is there around us that we cannot know. Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains and there's no end in sight Has the light gone out for you? Because the light's gone out for me. It is the 21st century. They got a skin and put me in. All the lines wrapped around my face. And for anyone else to see I'm a lie. It is useless to bring two compasses, because if one goes wrong, you can never know which one is correct, or if both are wrong. Always take one compass, or more than three.