Stop thinking, start hearing
I heard an old Alan Watts lecture over a piece of music the other day. If you talk all the time, he said, you never hear anyone else. The same goes for thinking.
Maybe it’s not about creation, it’s about awareness
One season at Urban Outfitters we couldn't stop selling cheap plastic chandeliers. The next big thing turned out to be a box on a shelf that had been there all along.
Who was richer?
I parked in a stranger's field after the retreat. Long driveway, racehorses, the kind of property that communicates, without saying a word, that the person who owns it has done very well. He fed the horses and went inside. I sat in my chair under the awning and thought: who's richer?
It's not supposed to be so hard
I gathered up a collection of artworks and drove them to an auction house. I drove home, walked back in, and it felt completely wrong. Within the hour I was back in the car.
How to keep the door open
A client said to me: I connected to something really powerful. And then life got busy, and I lost it. How do I keep it? It's one of the most important questions there is.
Is your life a road trip or a commute?
I was talking to a woman who was heading to Dorset with her family. She was focused entirely on getting there. And I thought: she's already on the road trip. She just can't see it yet.
Performance is fragile. Expression isn't.
For most of my life, I performed. Not on a stage, in boardrooms. Then a couple of weeks ago I sang in public for the first time, and understood the difference.
I went on a retreat and all I came back with was the meaning of life
One of the outrageous goals I set myself six years ago was to be able to dance in public without alcohol. That tells you something about where I was.
You Can't Untaste Awareness
In a recent meditation, I asked myself a simple question. Where is awareness right now? And what does it actually feel like?