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July 1st 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Oneness of All
The Master was strolling with some of his disciples along the bank of a river.
He said, "See how the fish keep darting about wherever they please. That's what they really enjoy."
A stranger overhearing that remark said, "How do you know what fish enjoy? You're not a fish."
The disciples gasped at what they took for impudence. The Master smiled at what he recognized as a fearless spirit of inquiry.
He replied affably, "And you, my friend, how do you know I am not a fish? You are not I."
The disciples laughed, taking this to be a well-deserved rebuff. Only the stranger was struck by its depth.
All day he pondered it, then came to the monastery to say, "Maybe you are not as different from the fish as I thought. Or I from you."
Anthony de Mello
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 2nd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Faith is an Eye-Opener
All it needs for enlightenment to 'occur' is a clear understanding of a dimension quite different from intellectual comprehension. What intellectual comprehension brings about is a belief in what is comprehended but an intuitive apprehension is based on faith.
Intellectual comprehension -- belief -- is based on argumentation, logic, effort and conflict. Intuitive apprehension -- faith -- is based on a certain inescapable inevitability, a relaxed acceptance of 'What-Is', totally free of any doubt or opinion.
"Faith" does not necessarily mean a conflict with reason or a substitute for reason. It merely means not excluding the possibility of the existence of certain levels of reality beyond the pure sense perceptions.
Faith is the power which is capable of bringing about the spontaneous apperception of the truth. Faith intuitively recognizes the ring of truth, and opens "the eye of the heart" to apperceive the Truth.
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 3rd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Autonomy & Independence
(When) there is a fullness of self in which there's no self-consciousness, there's no self-doubt, there's no fear, there's no self-concern. There's radical autonomy and simultaneously there's nothing preventing you from perfect communion, which means that there is nothing between you and the other....
It's not just an inner experience. It's spontaneously an inner revelation and a spontaneous response from that experience of revelation. So at that point there's no difference between the inner experience of enlightened mind and acting from that enlightened mind.
For it to be true non-duality there has to be a seamless non-difference between what you're seeing and knowing and how you're being and responding. Then there's no duality and your response is only coming from awakened consciousness.
Andrew Cohen
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 4th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Everybody's Secret.
God does not proclaim Himself. He is everybody's secret.
Katha Upanishad
The best treasure that a person can attain unto in this world is true knowledge, even the knowledge of him or herself: For the human being is the great mystery of God, the microcosm, or complete abridgement of the whole universe: he or she is the 'mirandum Dei opus', God's masterpiece, al living emblem and hieroglyphic of eternity and time; and therefore to know whence we are, and what our temperal or eternal being and well-being is, must needs be that 'one' necessary thing, to which our chief study should aim, and in comparison of which all the wealth of this world is but dross, and a loss to us.
Jacob Boehme
God has created us in order that we may become partakers of the divine nature, in order that we might enter into eternity, and that we might appear like unto Him, being deified by that grace out of which all things that exist have come.
St Maximus the Confessor
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 5th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- One True Religion
In all the ten directions of the universe, There is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same.
Ryokan
Generation upon generation has passed, my friend, but these meanings are constant and everlasting. The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remain the same.
Rumi
I have ever thought there has been one true religion in the world; and that is the work of the Spirit of God in the hearts and souls of humankind.
William Penn
There is a Spirit who is hidden in all things, as cream is hidden in milk, and who is the source of self-knowledge and self-sacrifice. This is Brahman, the Spirit Supreme.
Svetasvatara Upanishad, Part 1.
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 6th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- One Trunk, Many Branches
Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, so there is one true and perfect religion but it becomes many, as it passes through the human medium.
Mohandas K Gandhi
Of the one light of Truth teach us to see in every religion a several ray.
Zoroastrian text
The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only their differences.
Lao-tze
Cutting across the differences in doctrines between the great world religions – of Moses and Jesus, of Lao-tzu and Buddha, of Confucius and Mohammed – there remains the truth that God is what man finds that is divine in himself.
Max Lerner
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 7th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The River of Life
As the Master grew old and infirm, the disciples begged him not to die. Said the Master, "If I did not go, how would you ever see?"
"What is it we fail to see when you are with us?" they asked.
But the Master would not say.
When the moment of his death was near, they said, "What is it we will see when you are gone?"
With a twinkle in his eye, the Master said, "All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river."
Anthony de Mello
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being (Full-Being, All-Being, Being beyond words to describe).
The Dhammapada
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 8th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Illusion Dispelled
I once paid a visit to a famous Buddhist temple in Bangkok. As I entered this vast building, I was immediately confronted with symbols and signs and sounds which were unfamiliar to one educated in a quite different and apparently alien religion.
The temple was dominated by a huge statue of the Lord Buddha. Around the walls were a number of votive shrines whilst from hehind a large screen came the sound of chanting monks. As I looked and thought on what I saw, all seemed unreal and pointing to confusion.
I knelt down and closed my eyes to the representations of what to a devout Buddhist were realities well understood. And as I entered into the atmosphere in which the temple was soaked I became aware that it was that of the 'Light, love and power' which the ritual of my own religious training daily verbally affirmed.
The illusion of separateness was dispelled.
Peter Spink
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 9th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Of One Religion
I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchmen in the Academy, I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
There is only one true religion, but there may be many forms of belief.
Immanuel Kant
There is no need to seek for a world religion. It is here already in that ultimate mystical experience, known to the contemplative saints of every religious faith.... For the devout, it is here already, if he or she can only see it, in the actual and potential universality of his or her own revelation.
F C Happold
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 10th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Hours of Childhood
O hours of childhood, when behind the figures was more than the mere past, and when before us no future loomed! We grew, of course, and sometimes made haste to be grown-up, half for the sake of those who'd nothing else but their grown-upness. But when we were alone, we found our pleasure in everlastingness; we would stand there, in between world and plaything, on a spot founded from the beginning of the world for the enactment of a pure event.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The ever-new magical universe is continually reborn in the child. Only he grown up was banished from Eden. The child eats or the tree of life. For him, the laws of the universe are magical. This childhood and this magic the Christ restores.
Lewis Thompson
Know, O my son, that each thing in the universe is a vessel full to the brim with wisdom and beauty. It is a drop from the river of HIs Beauty ... It is a hidden treasure because of its fullness. It has exploded and made the earth more brilliant than the skies. It has sprung up and made the earth like a sultan wearing a robe of satin.
Rumi
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 11th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- A Luminous Splendor
There are countless accounts by people who (on the verge of dying) had a visual impression of this portal as radiant light and then returned from what is commonly known as a near-death experience. Many of them also spoke of a sense of blissful serenity and deep peace.
In the Tibetan Book of the Dead, it is described as "the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness," which it says is "your own true self."
This portal opens up only very briefly, and unless you have already encountered the dimension of the Unmanifested in your lifetime, you will likely miss it. Most people carry too much residual resistance, too much fear, too much attachment to sensory experience, too much identification with the manifested world.
So they see the portal, turn away in fear, and then lose consciousness. Most of what happens after that is involuntary and automatic. Eventually, there will be another round of birth and death. Their presence wasn't strong enough yet for conscious immortality.
Eckhart Tolle
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 12th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Eye of the Heart
The Essence of the First Absolute Light, God, gives constant illumination, whereby it is manifested and it brings all things into existence, giving life to them by its rays. Everything in the world is derived from the Light of His Essence; all beauty and perfection are the gift of His Bounty; and to attain fully to this illumination is salvation.
Sohrawardi
Radiant in his light, yet invisible in the secret place of the heart, the Spirit is the supreme abode wherein dwells all that moves and breathes and sees. Our whole business, therefore, in this life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen (intuitively apprehended).
St Augustine
I am blind and do not see the things of this world; but when the light comes from Above, it enlightens my Heart and I can see, for the Eye of my Heart sees everything: and through this vision I can help my people.
The heart is a sanctuary at the Centre of which there is a little space, wherein the Great Spirit dwells, and this is the Eye. This is the Eye of 'Wakantanka' by which He sees all things, and through which we see Him.
Black Elk
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 13th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Becoming What We Are
The entire effort of our Soul is to become God. This effort is as natural to man as that of flying is to birds. For it is inherent in all men, everywhere and always: therefore, it does not follow the incidental quality of some man, but the nature of the species itself ... For who implanted in our Souls this (tendency toward God) but God Himself, whom we seek?
Marsilio
There is a mode of knowing that is above intelligence, a divine madness. The like alone knows the like; sense, the sensible; intelligence, intelligence; the one, that which is one.
Let but the intelligent soul transcend intelligence, and it forgets itself and the rest. Adhering to unity, it therein peacefully dwells, closed to all knowledge, mute and silent ... this, my friend, is the divine working of the soul: he who is capable of it is set free from the bonds of authority; he is sheltered, not only from exterior but also from interior impulses: he is made God.
Proclus
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 14th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Multi-coloured Lantern
In essence there is and always has been only one spiritual teaching, although it comes in many forms. Some of these forms, such as the ancient religions, have become so overlaid with extraneous matter that their spiritual essence has become almost completely obscured by it. To a large extent, therefore, their deeper meaning is no longer recognized and their transformative power lost.
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual truth is a candle inside a multi-coloured lantern. Everyone looks through a particular colour but the candle is always there.
Mohammed Neguib
The humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask, they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.
William Penn
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 15th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Greatest Question
One day the Master asked, "What, in your opinion, is the most important of all religious questions?"
He got many answers:
"Does God exist?"
"Who is God?"
"What is the path to God?"
"Is there a life after death?"
"No," said the Master. "The most important question is: 'Who am I?'"
The disciples got some idea of what he was hinting at when they overheard him talking to a preacher:
Master: "So then, according to you, when you die your soul will be in heaven?"
Preacher: "Yes."
Master: "And your body will be in the grave?"
Preacher: "Yes."
Master: "And where, may I ask, will you be?"
Anthony de Mello
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 16th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- When the Veils are Burned Away
The image of God is found essentially and personally in all mankind. Each possesses it whole, entire and undivided, and altogether not more than one alone. In this way we are all one, intimately united in our eternal image, which is the image of God and the source in us of all our life.
Jan Van Ruysbroeck
Hear from the heart wordless mysteries! Understand what cannot be understood! In man's stone-dark heart there burns a fire That burns all veils to their root and foundation. When the veils are burned away, the heart will understand completely. Ancient Love will unfold ever-fresh forms In the heart of the Spirit, in the core of the heart.
Rumi
The entire effort of our Soul is to become God. This effort is as natural to man as that of flying is in birds. For it is inherent in all men, everywhere and always: therefore it does not follow the incidental quality of some man, but the nature of the species itself ... For who implanted in our Souls this (tendency toward God) but God Himself, whom we seek?
Marsilio Ficino
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 17th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- A New Life Within
When we transcend ourselves and become in our ascent towards God so simple that the bare supreme Love can lay hold of us, then we cease, and we and all our selfhood die in God, and find a new life within us.
Jan van Ruysbroeck
It is said by the Great Souls that if you were to gather all the glory, enjoyment, pleasure and happiness of the world and put it together, it would not approach one tiny fraction of the bliss that you experience upon realizing the nature of the mind (your true Self).
Nyoshul Kempo
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it
Rumi
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 18th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Deep Down Things
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade, bleared smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, Morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -- Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 19th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- A Mirror of The Infinite
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not men disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God. It is more to man since he is fallen than it was before. It is the place of Angels and the Gate of Heaven.
Thomas Traherne
The Kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth and men do not see it.
The Gospel of St Thomas
Hidden Nature is secret God.
Sri Aurobindo
For everything that lives is holy.
William Blake
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 20th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- All Pure Spirit
Each bush and oak doth know I AM.
Henry Vaughan
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
Hippocrates
If we have a wonderful sense of the divine, it is because we live amid such awesome magnificence. If we have refinement of emotion and sensitivity, it is because of the delicacy, the fragrance, the indescribable beauty of song and music and rhythmic movement in the world about us.
Thomas Berry
It was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit. The utensils of worship, the altar, the door frames, are pure spirit. Men, animals and other beings -- all pure spirit. Then, like a madman, I began to shower flowers in all directions. Whatever I saw, I worshipped.
Sri Ramakrishna
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 21st 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Holy Mother Earth
Holy Mother Earth, the trees and all nature, are witnesses to your thoughts and deeds.
A Winnebago wise saying.
If you think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you will see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth.
Joseph Campbell
The Earth, its life am I, The Earth, its feet are my feet, The Earth, its legs are my legs, The Earth, its body is my body, The Earth, its thoughts are my thoughts, The Earth, its speech is my speech.
Navajo Chant
Never was anything in the world loved too much, but many things have been loved in a false way; and all in too short a measure.
Thomas Traherne
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 22nd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- There is Wonder Here
We are the miracles that God made To taste the bitter fruit of Time. We are precious. And one day our suffering Will turn into the wonders of the earth . . .
That is why our music is so sweet. It makes the air remember. There are secret miracles at work That only time will bring forth. I too have heard the dead singing.
And they tell me that This life is good They tell me to live it gently With fire, and always with hope. There is wonder here
And there is surprise In everything the unseen moves. The ocean is full of songs. The sky is not an enemy. Destiny is our friend.
Ben Okri
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 23rd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Garden of Flowers
Here in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and the moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.
Saraha
Do not distain your body For the soul is just as safe in its body as in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mechthild of Magdeburg
The body also has an experience of divine things, when the passionate forces of the soul are not put to death but transformed and sanctified.
St Gregory Palamas
Do not go into the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.
Kabir
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 24th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Sacrament of Existence
There was a time when meadow, grove, And stream, The earth and every common sight, To me did seem, Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.
William Wordsworth
Ah midsummer! Ripening fruits, rich vines, evening perfume, With the waxing moon clear and full. How the old scholars understood the transience Of all secluded moments!
Loy Ching-Yuen
Over our striving, our rooms our houses; the beautiful ritual of the rain falling against the window, the voice of the wind, makes us remember a journey older than thought, deeper than death, a triumph, the secret ascension of love. The tasting of these things in our days and nights is the partaking of the sacrament of existence.
Cecil Collins
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 25th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Hear the Hearing.
Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word. The Unmanifested is present in this world as silence. This is why it has been said that nothing in this world is so like God as silence.
All you have to do is pay attention to it. Even during a conversation, become conscious of the gaps between words, the brief silent intervals between sentences. As you do that, the dimension of stillness grows within you. You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within. You have entered the Unmanifested.
Eckhart Tolle -- The Power of Now
When a gong or 'singing bowl' is struck in the silent stillness, a reverberating sound is suddenly born ... it lingers briefly... decays and dies. The sound can represent the span of our life-experience, but never our Life. Our true Self is not the perishable sound, but the imperishable still silence from which the sound arose and resonated temporarily. Indeed, this truth has even greater depths ... for it may be understood, that in our essence, we are none other than That which strikes the gong, so to speak, and silently witnesses the resulting 'sound'.
PSS
The sound dies, but that which hears remains; leave sound to itself and hear the hearing instead..
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 26th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- An Awareness of Being
As long as you are unaware of Being, the reality of other humans will elude you, because you have not found your own. Your mind will like or dislike their form, which is not just their body but includes their mind as well.
True relationship becomes possible only when there is an awareness of Being. Coming from Being, you will perceive another person's body and mind as just a screen, as it were, behind which you can feel their true reality, as you feel yours.
So, when confronted with someone else's suffering or unconscious behavior, you stay present and in touch with Being and are thus able to look beyond the form and feel the other person's radiant and pure Being through your own.
At the level of Being, all suffering is recognized as an illusion. Suffering is due to identification with form. Miracles of healing sometimes occur through this realization, by awakening Being-consciousness in others -- if they are ready.
Eckhart Tolle -- The Power of Now
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 27th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Go With The Flow
As long as you are in this (material, space/time) dimension, you are still subject to its cyclical nature and to the law of impermanence of all things, but you no longer perceive this as "bad" -- it just is.
Through allowing the "isness" of all things, a deeper dimension underneath the play of opposites reveals itself to you as an abiding presence, an unchanging deep stillness, an uncaused joy beyond good and bad. This is the joy of Being, the peace of God.
On the level of form, there is birth and death, creation and destruction, growth and dissolution, of seemingly separate forms. This is reflected everywhere: in the life cycle of a star or a planet, a physical body, a tree, a flower; in the rise and fall of nations, political systems, civilizations; and in the inevitable cycles of gain and loss in the life of an individual.
There are cycles of success, when things come to you and thrive, and cycles of failure, when they wither or disintegrate and you have to let them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you will suffer.
Eckhart Tolle -- The Power of Now
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 28th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Like a Deep Lake
Having gone beyond the mind-made opposites (good/bad, right/wrong etc.), you become like a deep lake.
The outer situation of your life and whatever happens there, is the surface of the lake. Sometimes calm, sometimes windy and rough, according to the cycles and seasons. Deep down, however, the lake is always undisturbed. You are the whole lake, not just the surface, and you are in touch with your own depth, which remains absolutely still.
You don't resist change by mentally clinging to any situation. Your inner peace does not depend on it. You abide in Being -- unchanging, timeless, deathless -- and you are no longer dependent for fulfillment or happiness on the outer world of constantly fluctuating forms. You can enjoy them, play with them, create new forms, appreciate the beauty of it all. But there will be no need to attach yourself to any of it.
Eckhart Tolle -- The Power of Now
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 29th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- All is in God
Master Tung Kwo asked Chuang: "Show me where the Tao is to be found."
Chang Tzu replied, "There is nowhere It is not to be found."
The Way of Chuang Tzu
When a seven-year-old was once asked by a TV interviewer, "Can you tell me where God is?" the youngster quickly replied, "Is there anywhere He isn't?".
Source unknown
I take a totally different view of God and Nature from that which the later Christians usually entertain, for I hold that God is the immanent, and not the extraneous, cause of all things, I say, All is in God; all lives and moves in God.
Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 30th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Unchanging Presence
"You admire that picture?" said an old Dominican to me at Padua, as I stood contemplating a Last Supper in the refectory of his convent, the figures as large as life. "I have sat at my meals before it for seven and forty years; and such are the changes that have taken place among us -- so many have come and gone in the time -- that, when I look upon the company there, upon those who are sitting at that table, silent as they are, I am sometimes inclined to think that we, and not they, are the shadows."
Samuel Rogers
I dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever-changing, ever-dying, there is, underlying all that change, a Living Power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates. That informing Power or Spirit is God. And since nothing else I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.
Mohandas K Gandhi
In heavenly love abiding, No change my heart shall fear; And safe in such confiding, For nothing changes here. The storm may roar about me, My heart may low be laid, But God is round about me, And can I be dismayed?
Anna Letitia Waring
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
July 31st 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Airports
At London's Heathrow Airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor, and a graphical calculator. Authorities believe he is a member of the notorious al-Gebra movement. He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.
Newspaper report
Heathrow has been described as the only building site to have its own airport.
Source unknown
It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear.
Douglas Adams'
If God had really intended men to fly, He'd make it easier to get to the airport.
George Winters
