9 Reader Responses

1. alistair Says:
   August 30th, 2005 at 2:30 pm

   the expectation of insight is the same. regarding what road to take; there is only one path and you`re on it. it`s how you respond to it that shapes your reality.

2. Fell Says:
   August 30th, 2005 at 4:42 pm

   “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” —Ursula K. LeGuin

3. carlos Says:
   August 30th, 2005 at 7:58 pm

   but all roads lead to rome! that’s why it doesn’t matter which one you take, you’re fucked either way. unless along the way you become the kind of person that says “y’know what? fuck roads!”

   i don’t think it’s particularly shamanic to eat a fortune cookie. might be kind of magical to write them though. i’d like to see one that says “ouch”

4. Tim Boucher Says:
   August 30th, 2005 at 9:05 pm

   That reminds me of a much better Ursula LeGuin quote:

   I have never found anywhere in the domain of art, that you don’t have to walk to. (There is quite an array of jets, buses and hacks which you can ride to Success; but that is a different destination.) It is a pretty wild country. There are, of course, roads. Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain’t no free rides baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction - you go alone. With a machete in your hand, and the fear of God in your heart.

5. alistair Says:
   August 30th, 2005 at 11:14 pm

   i saw some misfortune cookies recently. one said, “you`re ugly and your mother dresses you funny”. an unexpected way to end a meal!

6. Kylark Says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 2:17 am

   I got a great fortune the other day: “You live in an eternity. Be happy today.” It really struck me.

   I have had some unusually prescient fortune cookies, and some really irrelevant ones. I always enjoy them, and am inordinately disappointed on the rare occasions when they are not included.

7. rev max Says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 2:08 pm

   There’s a great sufi quote about going on a voyage

   If you set out across the ocean towards your destination w. no boat then you will be cast into the sea and drown

   OTOH if you do take a boat you may become attached to the vehicle and forget your destination - you will be always departing and never arriving

   I think it may be a metaphor for finding a teacher. The sufis believe you need’em but there is a danger of becoming to attached to’em - the teacher is a vehicle, not the destination

8. alistair Says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 6:41 pm

   or you could learn to swim.

9. Tim Boucher Says:
   August 31st, 2005 at 6:49 pm

   Funny you should say that, because I actually don’t know how to swim