Life According to Fred

Saying of Fred Somewhere between rationality and randomness is where we live. Most people are in a tunnel to oblivion, not a tunnel of love. Don’t own anything anyone would steal. Don’t own anything you would miss if it were stolen Be ready for random opportunities, and go looking for new experiences and acquaintances. Pee clear at least once a day. The more you try to control anything, the more you are controlled by it. Life is a constant struggle to balance all the rules and regulations of society against the dictates of your soul. Check your bowel movements to get an assessment of your soul. Create a life by dreaming and then finding ways to get around whatever blocks the dream from happening. The here-and-now is the place where your soul meets reality and your personal story line meets the possibilities of tomorrow. Your soul talks to you in the pauses in life, and that’s why you need to create pauses. The real demons and devils are inside of you. Never get sunburned on your genitals. Without a lot of pain, a person is hollow. It’s easier to live a life without choices. Everyone has a soul place where they really belong. The problem is in finding it. You have to go through hell to get to heaven. Learn to dance your ideas. Approach every human being with awe and reverence. Find someone and dance your feelings for one another. Look for the spiritual way of making love. If you have a need, satisfy it. Just don’t make someone else responsible for your satisfaction. The spirits do not appear on command. Sensuous doesn’t mean sexual. It would be a pretty dull world if every bit of knowledge had to be useful. Be careful when you roll over after making love. The harder you try, the harder it is to get hard. It’s not how often you make love but how well. Very few people are in transit in life. You learn more by getting wet than by reading an instruction manual. Honor your connections. Learn from everyone you meet. It’s not the size of the task but the soul you put into it. Enjoy the process because most of the time the product isn’t worth shit. The world is made up of very small sounds. You will understand a lot about human behavior if you realize that most people are striving to become immortal or else doing everything they can to ignore the inevitability of dying. If your only goal is to catch fish, you will spend most of your life disappointed. The more you are able to adapt, the less you need to control. Intuition is just listening to subtle signals. Smart people have to ask dumb questions in order to learn. Some of the most interesting people in the world live on the margins of society. If God didn’t have a sense of humor, how could we? Look for the small wonders of the world where you live. Learning is just an attitude toward experience. Maybe underwear really isn’t necessary. Very few people are in transit in life. Talk about all your mundane and bad experiences; remain silent about the precious ones. Sometimes you’re better off with your assumptions than with real knowledge of what someone else thinks. You become more and more like who and what surrounds you, and you can choose who and what surrounds you. Organizations always outgrow their missions because the organization becomes the mission. There’s no need for One Book, because you can learn from all books, all places, all people. Pass on what you have learned, not what you have been taught. Your possessions own you as much as you own them.