Leave it to our *Brother* Bill:-)...insightful, beautiful, thought-provoking, etc., etc. I esp. love the Rumi quote.

Here's a bit of fun to go along:

Question: How many existentialists does is take to screw in a light bulb?

Answer: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a cosmos of nothingness.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake