"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." - Alan Watts

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My own brain is to me the most uncountable of machinery always buzzing, horring , sneezing and baried in mud why its passion for ?

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"The administration went through the motions of being the American government, and saying the things that American officials say, but the exercise had an air of imitation -- the studied intensity of tots who cook pies with mud." - Lionel Shriver, "The Mandibles"

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In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.

And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.

And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man.

Mud as man alone could speak.

God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke.

Man blinked.

What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely.

Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.

Certainly," said man.

Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.

And He went away.

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment.

Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didnt have to anymore.

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, Anne Lamott