The Sane Sailor

 

The sane sailor tacks like a manic-depressive into the wind,
between the wholistic hallucinations of the Eastern right-brain,
and the selfish paranoia of the Western left-brain.

Mania is derived from the parallelism of the Eastern homogeneity,
leading to the associative explosion of a psychotic episode,
regression, autism, schizophrenia.

Paranoia is derived from the self-centeredness of distinct Western
timelines, leading to racism, agoraphobia, zenophobia, claustrophobia.

When the poles change, and the sailor must tack and the path of
sanity is never a straight line, but of weaving of right and left brains,
a weaving of East and West, of wave and particle, of analogy and logic,
of induction and deduction, of art and science, of virtual and real, 
...,of mind and body.



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Quotations

"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an
 idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac." 
- George Carlin

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds;
 our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
-Goethe

"All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity."
-Samuel Johnson

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine.
 It is only the sane people who are willing to admit
 that they are crazy."
-Nora Ephron

"The distance between insanity and genius
 is measured only by success."
-James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies

"Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
-R. D. Lang