Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.
Interpretation
To resist the chaos or irrationality of life may itself be a form of madness.
This quote suggests that fighting against the inherent madness of existence can lead to one's own mental turmoil. It implies that acceptance of chaos and irrationality may be a more sane approach than trying to impose order on an unpredictable world, as the struggle itself can exacerbate one's own madness.
In practice
In a philosophy class discussing the nature of reality, one might quote Brown to illustrate the futility of resisting chaos.
Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.
I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.
I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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