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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns
something he can learn in no other way.
You are trapped in Maya’s web. She’s already got you immobilized and narcotized, but now you’re experiencing a moment of lucidity, brought about, I assume, by the initial nondual insight. From this point of partial lucidity, you can either relax or resist – settle deeper in or start fighting your way out – but as soon as you move a muscle, spider Maya will know you’re emerging from the effects of her venom. She’ll increase your dosage to put you back under, and your brief glimpse of the light will be lost and forgotten. Thus it is said, think first and plan carefully. Don’t start shaking the web until you’re ready to act. Lay low, stay still, don’t call attention to yourself. Play a stealth game. Don’t share your insights or seek support; anyone who can hear you is in the same predicament you are, so all you’ll do is alert Maya to your alertness.
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"Apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today."
Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) was an American author, humorist, and social critic, best known for his classic novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Raised in Missouri along the Mississippi River, Twain drew heavily from his boyhood experiences in his writing, capturing the complexities of American life before and after the Civil War. His sharp wit, keen observations, and irreverent humor made him a celebrated public speaker and a defining voice in American literature. Twain also wrote travelogues, essays, and short stories, often using satire to critique social injustice, imperialism, and hypocrisy.