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“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

(Dec 7, 2020 07:18 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1898

If "madness" is subscribing or reverting to the popular dogmatic culture that one was either raised in or acquired later. Everything neatly wrapped-up.

Or if "madness" is any gradual development away from the original state of innocence, of Eden: A baby lacking memory or language-based cognition and reasoning to understand or puzzle over what it is experiencing -- no means to create "problems" seeking explanations.

An insect isn't mentally confronted by "grand riddles", either. Just lives in its narrow, innate routine -- never deviating from the survival/reproductive program and the latter's intuitively evident "answers" or limit.

The ultimate mystery-free condition would be death or non-consciousness. Not just a lack of reactive reasoning, but all passive manifestation of world and self being gone, too.

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
― Henry Rollins

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive!” - Hafiz

“Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggests that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.”
― Timothy Leary, Chaos & Cyber Culture

“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy