An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit.