Mind and the Motorcycle

“We are made of star stuff.” — Carl Sagan

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” Plato I LOVE THE QUESTION AND GOOD LUCK FINDING AN ANSWER!

"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.” Benjamin Franklin

“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.” Aesop GIVE A LISTEN. YOU MIGHT ENJOY IT. YOU MIGHT NOT. YOU WON'T KNOW UNLESS YOU LISTEN.

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” —Jack Kerouac It is a really good story and worth your time to listen, seriously.

“Ants are a curious race.” Robert Frost

“A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.” Stephen Hawking THIS ONE IS TRUE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND JUMPS AROUND, JUST LIKE ALL OUR MINDS. ENJOY

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” Maya Angelou

“I think that one may contribute (ever so slightly) to the beauty of things by making one’s own life and environment beautiful, so far as one’s power reaches.” Robinson Jeffers

“ Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. " Adolph Hitler WHEN YOU START OFF WITH A QUOTE BY HITLER, YOU LIKELY IMAGINE IT IS NOT GOING TO BE A HAPPY STORY. WELL, THIS ONE IS KIND OF A MIXTURE OF BOTH. IT IS THAT FINE LINE BETWEEN LIVING YOUR OWN, JOY FILLED LIVE, IN THE MIDST OF A LOOMING SHIT STORM.

WROTE THIS STORY IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF COVID'S VISITATION.  I JUST REALIZED IN THIS STORY THAT THE SPOKEN WORD IS A DIFFERENT MEDIUM THAN THE WRITTEN ONE. BEEN RELIGIOUSLY RECORDING MY STORIES AS SCRIPTS AND THAT'S A MISUSE OF THE AUDIO MEDIUM, AT LEAST FOR ME. HOPE YOU ENJOY

“Life is full of temporary situations, ultimately ending in a permanent solution.” Rodney Dangerfield FIND THE TIME TO LISTEN AND THAT'S WHAT THIS STORY IS ALL ABOUT.

"There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.” Charles Darwin

“THE BUDDHA WAY IS UNSURPASSED I VOW TO EMBODY IT FULLY” FOURTH VOW This is about the meaning of life, at least to me. One of my better ones, for sure.

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”Ursula K. Le Guin

“Have I not reason to lament   What man has made of man?” William Wordsworth

“PITY THE NATION WHOSE PEOPLE ARE SHEEP AND WHOSE SHEPHERDS MISLEAD THEM”  Lawrence Ferlinghetti 

“Things do not change; we change.” Henry David Thorea

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you justify violence at all, you justify it for all” Lawrence A. Feinstein

“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” Walt Whitman

“Do not take roads traveled by the public.” Pythagoras “History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.” Karl Marx

“Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.” The Buddha

" Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. " Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

 ‘ We succumb to the belief that the way we have grown to see the world is the only way to see it, the right way to see it, and we seldom suspect the conditioned nature of our perception.” James Hollis