more wibbles

[cybermule]

Two brief snippets:

• Natural enemies of learning = fear + clarity + power + old age (pp. 84-7)
  
• "Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do" (p. 106)
  
  Hmmm. Just looked up "schizoid" on a medical site. Hypochondria attack :P
  
  Oh - I also vaguely remembered a dream from last night. Better get it down. There are only some vague details - I remember hanging around with a guy from work in his house. I've got a soft spot for him IRL, seeing as he looks like a tall, slightly long-haired Johnny Depp in his 'Dead Man' phase ;) Anyhow, in my dream, he lived in a kind of straw huts on posts on the edge of this huge arena. Once I left the house and went into this arena, I couldn't get back. The arena was isolated by terrifyingly icy darkness. It was similar in style to a roman amphitheatre, with tiered stone seats and a central circular arena. I had to wait there for something - I don't know what. It was quite cold and dark. The central arena had a sandy floor, dark wet red sand, like the stuff on building sights. Sometimes I was hanging about there, but sometimes I wandered around the stone benches. It was a bit like a UT2003 arena, or the Hub from Turok 1, and the sky was cold and black and starless. My old friend from school occasionally turned up for a chat, but I was mostly on my own. Then I woke up fairly suddenly.