Meandering in the looking-glass . . .

Today is the birthday of Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001), author. He is best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

"You can't really be strong until you can see a funny side things."
- Ken Kesey

"The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer."
- Ken Kesey

"Look...Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And the Scenes Gone By and the Scenes to Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focus simply move a few inches back or forward. And once more...look."
- Ken Kesey

"It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves."
- Ken Kesey

"We can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed."
- Ken Kesey

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