The Bodega at the End of the Internet

“Anger is the most useless emotion,” Henchick intoned, “destructive to the mind and hurtful of the heart.”

at the end I hardly knew who I was or what I was doing.

If you want to become whole,

let yourself be partial.

If you want to become straight,

let yourself be crooked.

If you want to become full,

let yourself be empty.

If you want to be reborn,

let yourself die.

If you want to be given everything,

give everything up.

The Master, by residing in the Tao,

sets an example for all beings.

Because he doesn’t display

Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you, and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing.

This can’t be the purpose of our species, to constantly identify each other as “other,” build walls between us, and engage in both formal and informal wars against each other’s bodies.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

For one gains by losing

And loses by gaining.

“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”