Chuck Lorre maker of “Dharma and Greg” and “The Big Bang Theory” managed to sneak a series of subliminal vanity cards into his sitcoms.

After reading a number of these, I’m convinced that Lorre is an artist of the highest order forced to slum in the sitcom ghetto for his day job. His hidden vanity cards reveal the few scant frames of flickering truth shone through the Devil’s dream box each week.

My favorite so far is this…

I believe that the very act of believing in something causes us to distance ourselves from that thing, thus a duality is created: oneself and the thing in which one believes. Now since we all know that in order to fully understand a thing one must be that thing — walk a mile in its shoes so to speak — it seems obvious that the state of believing in something inevitably causes us to not truly understand that thing in which we believe. This noncomprehension leads to all sorts of difficulties. “I believe in love” has a better than even chance of leading to divorce, while “I believe in God” seems to end in variations on the Spanish Inquisition. But — and it’s a big but — if one were love, one couldn’t help but be affectionate and caring towards oneself and others. If one were God, one would act toward all beings and all things as if they were one’s own creations. And that, my friends, is the secret of life in a two-second vanity card. Of course, the secret could also be “Sit, Ubu, sit.” We have to keep an open mind.