It’s Monday, time to die again.

“we shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time”
Starting a monday morning quoting T.s. Eliot

Elliot is The Man. He had it right in so many ways. This little quote forwarded to my by an old friend pretty much encapsulates the path of life.

We see this story retold and retold in every quest that ever existed. From Jesus going into the desert to King Arthur going on his quest. Every story has a going out and a return. Just like life. We go out into the world and at the end we return to the earth.

Could it be that life is the exploration away from our true existence, an existence we only return to at death? Could it be that life is a little trip away from our true home in eternity? Could it be that we go out and live a few breaths so as to better understand our existence when not incarnate.

Incarnate = in the flesh. In the form. Made out of clay. Such a base material. So constricting, so solid, so opposite from who we are normally. The rest of the time we are light, formless ether, neutrinos without measurable mass.

Being incarnate is the perfect break from who we are normally, the perfect respite, the perfect change of scenery. This little foray into earthiness is very possibly a simple weekend trip to clear the eternal head. To get some fresh air, to get a little sunshine and perspective on our formless and limitless reality.

Being eternally at one with the universe can become a drag too you know. There’s no privacy. You need to be shackled to an earthly body once in a while. You need to experience the ignorance and limited perspective of a human vehicle to truly understand your life in Godliness.

Being human is the gods’ way of going to the theme part. Riding the bumper cars; crude little vehicles with limited maneuverability and blunt modes of communication. That’s humans. But after a day at the park eating crappy food, surrounded by crass sounds and cheap merchandise you are ready to go home and be Divine again.

You get the mediocrity out of your system. You let it all hang out. The ice cream dries on you hand and the dust sticks to your sweaty legs. They call it slumming it. You are in a place where nothing really matters. You don’t have to be the Big Man with all the responsibilities of being Divine. You just have to be careful you don’t puke hot dogs on the merry go round and piss your pants on the roller coaster.

Small responsibilities compared to universal wisdom and eternal harmony.

So lets relax. We’re on a day trip from our real job. We’ve been given a weekend respite. R&R. When we die we’ll have to go back to work carrying the collective consciousness of the universe. But for now we are allowed to be dumb fucks for a while. Piss around. Watch the clouds, fart and giggle.

There is no point to our “life” aka spring break but to relax and get away for a while. Enjoy the ride. Chill. Hey look! A red bird!

Because if we don’t relax we’ll get back to work on Monday and all the other Gods will ask, “So did you have a nice weekend?” and you’ll REALLY feel like a dumb fuck if you say something like, “Uh, I was meant to have a nice weekend? I spent it being miserable trying to prove to my father that I can be successful.” or something stereotypically human like that.

Life IS the break. Life IS the exploration away from home. Life is where you go to for continuing education. You know, those classes where there are no tests at the end and you spend most of the class wondering what the teacher would look like naked. Nobody takes them seriously.

Yet so few realize life is a continuing ed class. Instead they take notes frantically and totally stress out about the test. Can somebody please tell them there is no fucking test! At the end of the class you will die. No test. No grade. No golden star. Death for all regardless of how you spent your time.

So chill and enjoy life because before you know it Monday will roll around and you’ll have to die again.

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Quote of the Day

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Michael Pollan, In Deffense of Food.

And by “food” he means the original version before it is dried, frozen, combined, saturated, processed, fried or whatever other process that takes it away from its original wholeness.

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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? It Depends Who You Ask.

The following “quotes” from famous people on why the chicken crossed the road are great because they show how we all interpret the world from our own limited perspective. And not only that, we believe our interpretation is the universal truth and that everyone is seeing it from out point of view too (of course we see it more clearly than them but it is still from the same point of view).

The truth is that the world is holographic (and yes this is my point of view :). We all are looking at the large elephant but nobody is big enough to see the whole animal. So one person describes the elephant as having a huge foot. Somebody else says no, it is an animal with a trunk. They are all correct.

The moral of the story? It is possible that you and another person are looking at the exact same thing and come up with completely different but correct interpretations. It seems impossible until both of you raise up above your perspectives to another higher one that includes both.

For example, an argument between a couple. She says he is being an asshole. He says she is being a bitch. Odds are they are both correct. If they both raise their perspective to include the other person’s view they can easily resolve the problem by both admitting fault and taking responsibility.

Here are the various interpretations of why the chicken crossed the road. They are funny:

DR. PHIL : The problem we have here is that this chicken won’t realize that he must first deal with the problem on ‘THIS’ side of the road before it goes after the problem on the ‘OTHER SIDE’ of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he’s acting by not taking on his ‘CURRENT’ problems before adding ‘NEW’ problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I’m going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH : We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road…

DR SEUSS : Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY : To die in the rain. Alone.

GRANDPA : In my day we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

JOHN LENNON : Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your chick book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra…#@&&^(C% ……..
reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley
had some cool quotes.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Experience is not what happens to a person; it is what a person does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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More sayings

43% of all statistics are worthless.
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
Learning from your mistakes is smart, learning from the mistakes of others is wise.
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

Compiled by Scott Wickenden

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