roll on reality/wisdom of the water snake

when you expect a great pharmaceutical or spiritual brearkthrough in mental health you expect coal to become diamonds by staring at coal or by calling coal scientology. what we can do is make the present as meaningful as we can whilst all the best therapists and alchemists and spiritual leaders go their mortal way with or without our money.

we should make the most of this life because we're not coming back. if someone tells you you're coming back or going on to some heaven, then they're about to tell you you have to give them money, to be sure, to be sure.
We have no meaning at all outside the time we live. we can leave some words and some pictures and some memories, but we're gone for good.


when it comes to perfect enlightenment, no one ever promised that you're going to like it or that it lasts very long at all.

this is the human condition. it has always been like this. it was written up well and truly in 1580 and it hasn't changed one bit since. it cant change. its the truth. its reality. every person bears the full stamp of the human condition.

you go into a bookshop and you see a thousand books on spirituality, on new age stuff, on buddhism, on personal freedom, on ways and means, on catholicism on islam on pure zen etc and its then you realise the human condition...

that we dont like it.

we dont like it so much we'll give someone money to make it different...but it doesnt change a thing, because the human condition does not change.

be happy with who you are, Genghis Smith, and do what you can of what you prefer...no one else now has the chance to be you and no one else in the future will ever have the chance to know you.

make a noise if you want to.

i really like this symbol of the libra-snake. i dont know who drew it, but i like it a lot.