they don't you change or prevent you but
ask that question was seriously and
deeply what's your answer why don't you
change or prevent you
you can do anything you want you are
bound by nothing
what are you passionate about we go
through life with our antennas bouncing
off one another continuously on aunt
autopilot with nothing really human
required of us stop go walk here drive
there I'll action basically for survival
all communications simply to keep this
ant colony buzzing along in an efficient
polite manner here's your change paper
plastic credit or debit what catch up
with that I don't want to straw I want
real human moments I want to see you I
want you to see me I don't want to give
that up I don't want to be an aunt you
know
I did my career on my own terms and I
don't know how many people get to do
that anymore I think there are too many
expectations are too many pathways and
rules and the true rebels don't seem to
be around very much what was it about 20
year old then I would say do what do
what you love do it well and if people
patch on the back for it you got it that
the secret to happiness is finding
something you love and doing it well and
then being recognized for it someone
even if it's one person who says you're
doing a great job or if it's applause
but those three things together I said
to my wife at that time when I changed I
said you know even if I only filled
coffeehouses three days a week for the
rest of my life I'd be happy doing that
and when you let go of goals and stuff I
mean ideally attachment to goals that's
when things come to you you should have
a name point but not a thing like that
anybody driving around trying to save
the planet the planet doesn't need that
the planet will take care of itself
people are selfish and that's what
they're doing is trying to save the
planet for themselves to have a nicer
place to live they don't care about the
planet people think nature is outside of
them they don't take into them the idea
that we are part of it they say oh we're
going for a nature walk we're going to
the country because we like nature
nature's in here and if you're into with
it like the Indians the hope is
especially the balance of life the
balance the harmony of nature if you
understand that you don't overbuild it's
a symphony everybody's in the band you
know it's not just one is not just one
group people are people want their
goodies they want their toys everybody
wants the newest gizmo where slaves took
his moles of twice
he wants a cell phone that will make
pancakes and I think that'll find your
passion and follow it and if there is
anything I have learned in my life you
will not find that passion in things and
you will not find that passion in money
because the more things and the more
money you have the more you will just
look around and use that as the metric
and there will always be someone with
more that passion will be grounded in
people and it will be grounded in the
relationships you have with people and
what they think of you when your time
comes
we are actually software to actually
experience another's plight as if we are
experiencing itself but their neurons
are just beginning of a whole range of
research going on in neuropsychology and
brain research in child development that
suggests that we are actually soft liar
not for aggression and violence and
self-interest and utilitarianism that we
are actually saw flyered for sociability
attachment as John Bowlby might have
said affection companionship and that
the first drive is the drive to actually
belong what we are trying you know these
discussions and talks here is to see if
we cannot radically bring about a
transformation of the mind not accepting
said they are
but to understand it to go into it to
examine it give your heart and your mind
with any but a thing that you have to
find out a way of living differently
but that depends on you are not somebody
else because in this there is no teacher
no pupil there's no leader it's no good
there's no master no Savior you yourself
are the teacher and the pupil no you're
the master you are the Guru you are the
leader you are everything and to
understand is to transform what is they
are afraid of new ideas they are loaded
with prejudices not based upon anything
in reality but based on if something is
new I rejected immediately because it's
frightening to me what they do instead
is just stay with the familiar you know
to me the most beautiful things and all
the universe are the most mysterious
you