Classic Sherlock Holmes deduction

I have heard a dialogue between Sherlock Holmes and Watson:

Holmes: Ah Watson. I see you have put on your winter underwear.

Watson: Marvellous, Holmes, marvellous! How did you ever deduce that?

Holmes: Well, you have forgotten to put on your trousers.

Life is not a detective story, and you do not have to deduce a thing. Life is before your eyes as clear as the sun and as open as the sky. Just be out of your thinking, disease and open your eyes and nothing is hidden at all. Even the hidden one is not hidden then.

All the ultimate answers are foolish

In a little backwoods school the teacher was at the blackboard explaining arithmetic problems.

She was delighted to see her dullest pupil giving slack-jawed attention, which was unusual for him. Her happy thought was that at last the gangling lad was beginning to understand.

When she finished she said to him: YOU were so interested, Cicero. that I am sure you want to ask some questions.

Yes ma’am, drawled Cicero, I got one to ask.

Where do those figures go when you rub them off?

All the ultimate answers are foolish in a way because the ultimate is not only unknown, it is unknowable. A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being. Knowing is not possible, but being is.

Or in other word: in relation to the ultimate only - being is knowing. This dimension is the religious dimension and unless one is religious in this sense one goes on asking absurd questions and accumulating even more absurd answers.

The search for answers is meaningless

A patient in a mental hospital placed his ear to the wall of his room, listening intently.

Quiet, he whispered to an orderly and pointed to the wall. The attendant pressed his ear against the wall, listened, and then said: I don't hear anything.

No, replied the patient.

It's awful, it's been this way always!

There is no answer to man's ultimate questions because the questions are absurd, and moreover there is no one to answer them. Existence is silent and has always been so, so do not ask but be silent and live it and know it. Because there is no knowing except living.

The search for answers is meaningless.