There are things in life that exist, and yet our eyes cannot see them. Have you ever seen something startling that others cannot see? 

Why are some things kept from our vision? Is life a puzzle? I am filled with questions. Sometimes my questions are answered. In my heart, I can tell if the answer is correct. I am my own judge. In a dream, are all the characters really you? Different aspects of you? Do answers come in dreams? 

One more thing: I grew up in the woods. I understand many things because of the woods. Trees standing together, growing alongside one another, providing so much. 

I chew pitch gum. On the outside, let's say of the ponderosa pine, sometimes pitch oozes out. Runny pitch is no good to chew. Hard, brittle pitch is no good. But in between there exists a firm, slightly crusted pitch with such a flavor. This is the pitch I chew.

"One day my log will have something to say about this."

DAVID LYNCH via MARGARET LANTERMAN

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Can you see through a wall? Can you see through human skin? X-rays see through solid, or so-called solid objects. There are things in life that exist, yet our eyes cannot see them. Have you ever seen something startling that others cannot see? Why are some things kept from our vision? Is life a puzzle?

I am filled with questions. Sometimes my questions are answered. In my heart, I can tell the answer is correct. I am my own judge. In a dream, are all the characters really you? Different aspects of you? Do answers come in dreams?

DAVID LYNCH

"Anywhere, Anytime" from Catching the Big Fish - Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

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You can meditate anywhere. You can meditate in an airport, at work, anywhere you happen to be.

Usually, I meditate in the morning before breakfast, and in the evening before dinner. But when I'm shooting, I meditate before I go, and again at lunch. And if I haven't meditated enough, I'll mediatte again when I finish.

I've been in places where there are no other meditators around, but it's very surprising: People kind of like it. I'll ask for a quiet room, and they say, "Oh, yes, yes, I'll find you a very nice, quiet place, and protect you."

We waste so much time on other things, anyway. Once you add this and have a routine, it fits very naturally.

DAVID LYNCH via MARGARET LANTERMAN

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Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say, "Hello!" They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words – are they words? These ideas speak so strangely.

All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: Some ideas arrive in the form of a dream.

DAVID LYNCH via MARGARET LANTERMAN

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Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body.

Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior. By ill, I mean any of the following: physically ill, emotionally ill, mentally ill, and/or spiritually ill.

Sometimes nature plays tricks on us and we imagine we are something other than what we truly are. Is this a key to life in general? Or the case of the two-headed schizophrenic? Both heads thought the other was following itself. Finally, when one head wasn't looking, the other shot the other right between the eyes, and, of course, killed himself.

Reflections.

SHORTS - PART ONE

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David Lynch

USA

1967

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Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times)

1968

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16mm

Absurd Encounter with Fear

Fictitious Anacin Commercial

Sailing with Bushnell Keeler

The Alphabet

1970

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The Grandmother

1974

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The Amputee – Version 1

The Amputee – Version 2

As above, so below. The human being finds himself, or herself, in the middle. There is as much space outside the human, proportionately, as inside. Stars, moons, and planets remind us of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Is there a bigger being walking with all the stars within? 

Does our thinking affect what goes on outside us, and what goes on inside us? I think it does. 

Where does creamed corn figure into the workings of the universe? What really is creamed corn? Is it a symbol for something else?

Miscommunication sometimes leads to arguments, and arguments sometimes lead to fights. Anger is usually present in arguments and fights. Anger is an emotion, usually classified as a negative emotion. Negative emotions can cause severe problems in our environment and to the health of our body. 

Happiness, usually classified as a positive emotion, can bring good health to our body, and spread positive vibrations into our environment. 

Sometimes when we are ill, we are not on our best behavior. By ill, I mean any of the following: physically ill, emotionally ill, mentally ill, and/or spiritually ill.

A poem as lovely as a tree:

As the night wind blows, the boughs move to and fro.

The rustling, the magic rustling that brings on the dark dream.

The dream of suffering and pain.

Pain for the victim, pain for the inflicter of pain.

A circle of pain, a circle of suffering.

Woe to the ones who behold the pale horse.

So now the sadness comes — the revelation. There is a depression after an answer is given. It was almost fun not knowing. Yes, now we know. At least we know what we sought in the beginning. 

But there is still the question: why? And this question will go on and on until the final answer comes. Then the knowing is so full, there is no room for questions.