Peter Brook version of The Mahabharata on video and pay special attention to the many facets of Krishna, and especially Peter Brooks’ own introduction to one of the segments where he

feeling of utter futility. And most importantly, they remember that at the heart of that black despair is the knowledge that that’s what’s real; everything is futile.

Running apart from the herd is certainly better than running with it, I could tell Chris, but of no substantive difference if you’re still running in the same direction.

“Beliefs are candles that man uses to ward off the surrounding darkness. They are the charms we use to hold infinity at bay, to dispel the black cloud that hovers over every head.”

If you want to benefit from knowledge, you have to own it for yourself and the only way to do that is to fight for it. Emerson said “No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.” Having the answer isn’t enough. You have to do the math.

“The universe will give you whatever you want, Marla. That’s how it works, even if you don’t know it. It can’t be otherwise. You don’t have to be worthy, but you do have to know what it is that you want. You have to focus. Try to do that. Try writing out what it is you want and condensing it down until you’ve reduced it to a concise statement of de

Here’s all you need to know to become enlightened: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know.

The process of awakening might be viewed as the transition between these two poles; the journey from fear and wrong-making to gratitude and open-eyed acceptance. If

When he finally mentioned it to someone, they advised him that the only way to get the name of the town out of his head was to go there. He did, got swept into a speaking engagement, and the whole Transcendental Meditation movement grew out of it. That makes sense to me. You observe events and you allow the flow of things to do the steering and you