Even the idiot may have a message for us

It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say 'amen.'

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What those powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring.

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.