Rome da Luce

What is love? It is a sensitivity to every portion of reality wishing you and without, together with a wholehearted response to that reality. Sometimes you will attack it, sometimes you'll ignore it and it others she will give it your fullest attention, but always you will respond not from need but from sensitivity. And what is attachment? A need, the cleaning that blunts your sensitivity, a drug the clouds your perception. That is why as long as you have the slightest attachment for anything or any person, love cannot be born. There is only one way to win the battle of attachments: drop them. Contrary to popular belief dropping attachments is easy. All you have to do is see, but really see, the following truths. First truth: you were holding onto a false belief, namely, the belief that without this particular person or thing you will not be happy. Take your attachments one at a time and see the falseness of this belief. You may encounter resistance from your heart, but the moment you do see, there will be an immediate emotional result. At that very instant the attachment loses its force. Second truth: if you just enjoy things, refusing to let yourself be attached to them, that is, refusing to hold the false belief that you will not be happy without them, you were spared all the struggle and emotional strain of protecting them and guarding them for yourself. Has it occurred to you that you can keep all the objects of your attachments without giving them up, without renouncing a single one of them and you can enjoy them even more on a non-attachment, a non-clinging basis, because you were peaceful now and relaxed and I'm threatened in your enjoyment of them? The third and final truth: if you learn to enjoy the scent of 1000 flowers you will not clean to one or suffer when you cannot get it. If you have 1000 favorite dishes, the loss of one will go unnoticed and leave your happiness unimpaired. But it is precisely your attachments that prevent you from developing a wider and more varied taste for things and people.

No. I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness: you are not needed there at all. No scope for your talents: only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere for inquiry... Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

"Artists have to be warriors... and have to have the stamina to conquer not just new territory, but also to conquer himself and his weaknesses. So it doesn't matter what kind of work you're doing as an artist, what matters is from what state of mind you're doing what you're doing. And performance is all about state of mind. So wait and see."