Buying in order to define a sensibility. Unbalanced, unless there is also principled divestiture (askesis). To see divestiture as honor—honoring the Void.

Amateurism. Only an amateur believes in the magical efficacy of procedures.

What Buddhism lost from Taoism is its CLOWNS.

“ ‘…No artist paints his own Dreaming. It’s too powerful. It might kill him.’ “ --The Songlines

What addicts us are the METAPHORS for freedom.

“I see the devil can quote Wittgenstein.
He’s blacker than he’s painted.” --Randall Jarrell

“That anyone who dressed so very badly as did Thomas Carlyle should have tried to construct a philosophy of clothes has always seemed to me one of the most pathetic things in literature.” --Max Beerbohm

For my crimes against poetry I am sentenced to logorrhea.

Desire is the part of the Mystery that moves.