On the Similarity Between Thoughts and Sweat.

On the Similarity Between Thoughts and Sweat.

 

Thoughts, abstractions, and systems of symbols by which we make “coherent, logical sense” of our experience are like fluid in the body. Once a thought has run its course and served its purpose, it is excreted like sweat. One would be hard-pressed to make use of it again, or even to hoard it. The Unconscious, which is the spontaneous activity of the entire organism, physical and psychic, would not allow it, however we may feel it to be driving us insane by calling into question logic that had just served us moments ago. We experience no sense of MEANING in such hoarding of thoughts, such futile attempts to fight the stream of the Tao, and so are driven mad trying to preserve what had been, moments ago, basically Sane. That is so until we cease to exhaust our energy in fighting the stream.

 

Dm.A.A.