For One

'...the whole deck may be read as the Fool’s journey.  “On one important level,” she explained, “the major cards are chapters in the story of a quest.  I’m talking the universal human quest for understanding and divine reunion.  And it doesn’t matter whether the quest starts with the Fool or ends with him, because it’s a loop anyhow, a cycle endlessly repeated.  When the naïve young Fool finally tumbles over the precipice, he falls into the world of experience.  Now his journey has really begun.  Along the way, he’ll meet all the teachers and tempters—the tempters are teachers, too—and challenging situations that a person is likely to meet in the task of his or her growing.  The Fool is potentially everybody, but not everybody has the wisdom or the guts to play the Fool.  A lot of folks don’t know what’s in that bag they’re carrying.  And they’re all too willing to trade it for cash.  Inside the bag, they have every tool they need to facilitate their life’s journey, but they won’t even open it up and glance inside.  Subconsciously, the goal of all of us out-of-control primates is essentially the same, but let me assure you of this: the only ones who’ll ever reach that goal are the ones who have the courage to make fools of themselves along the way.'

 -  Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins

 

 

"If you do not join the dancing, you will feel foolish. If you dance, you will also feel foolish. So, why not dance? And I will tell you a secret: If you do not join the dance, we will know you are a fool. But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying. And if you dance badly to begin and we laugh, what is the sin in that? We all begin there. Come on." I danced. Why not dance the dance of fools, and laugh the fool's laugh, and wear the fool's outfit, and care less about how I impress others?" - Robert Fulghum