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A man in our society…

A man in our society is not left alone. Not in the cities. Not in the woods. We must have commerce with our fellows, and that commerce isdifficult and uneasy. I do not understand how to live in this society. I don`t get it. Each person has an enormous effect. Call it environmental impact if you like. Where my foot falls, I leave a mark, whether I want to or not. We are linked together, each to each. You can`t breathe without taking a breath from somebody else. You can`t smile without changing the landscape. And so I ask the question: Why is theatre so ineffectual, unnew, not exciting, fussy, not connected to the thrilling recognition possible in dreams?

It`s a question of spirit. My unganly spirit thrashes around inside me, making me feel lumpy and sick. My spirit is this moment dissatisfied with the outward life I inhabit. Why does my outward life not reflect the enormity of the miracle of existence? Why are my eyes blinded with always new scales, my ears stopped with thick chunks of fresh wax, why are my fingers calloused again? I don`t ask these questions lightly. I beat on the stone door of my tomb. I want out! Some days I wake up in a tomb, some days on a grassy mound by a river. Today I woke up in a tomb.

Why does my spirit sometimes retreat into a deathly closet? Perhaps it is not my spirit leading the way at such times, but my body, longing to lie down in marble gloom and rot away. Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. When it`s not a safe place, it`s abusive to actors and audiences alike. When its safety is used to protect cowards masquerading as heroes, it`s a boring travesty. An actor who is truly heroic reveals the divine that passes through him, that aspect of himself that he does not own and cannot control. The control and artistry of the heroic actor is in service to his soul.

We live in an era of enormous cynicism. Do not be fooled. Don`t act for money. You`ll start to feel dead and bitter. Don`t act for glory. You`ll start to feel dead, fat and fearful. We live in an era of enormous cynacism. Do not be fooled. You can`t avoid the pitfalls. There are lies you must tell. But experience the lie. See it as something dead and unconnected you clutch. And let it go. Act from the depth of your feeling imagination. Act for celebration, for search, for grieving, for worship, to express that desolate sensation of wandering through the howling wilderness. Don`t worry about art. Do these things and it will be art.

/John Patrick Shanley 1950-

Tro inte...

”Tro inte vad du ser med dina ögon. Allt dom visar är begränsningar.”

/Richard Bach 1936-

Our deepest fear…

Our deepest fear i
not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness,
that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about
shrinking so that other people
won't feel insecure around you.
You were born to make manifest
the Glory of God that is within you.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

/Marianne Williamson 1952-

The invitation

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare do dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring with your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you're telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can hear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.

I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from God's presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "YES"!

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.

I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

/Oriah mountain dreamer (from: Dreams of Desire, 1995)

En tankeväckande jämförelse

Jämför första moseboks sex dagar med den geologiska tideräkningens fyra miljarder år.

Med den tideräkningen motsvaras en dag av ca, 666 miljoner år.

Fram till middagstid på Tisdagen gick åt för att sätta igång skapelsen. Då tog livet form, och organismerna utvecklades på fyra dagar.

Kl 16 på Lördagen kom jätteödlorna.

Fem timmar senare när redwoodskogen kom, var de utdöda.

Tre minuter före midnatt kom människan.

En kvarts sekund före midnatt föddes Kristus.

1/40 sekund före midnatt började den industriella revolutionen.

Många tror att det vi gjort under 1/40 sekund kan fortsätta i all evighet. De anses vara normala, men de är spritt språngande galna.

/Okänd

If you see what is small...

”If you see what is small as it sees itself,
And accept what is weak for what strenght it has,
And use what is dim for the light it gives.
Then all will go well.

This is called acting naturally.”

/Lao Tzu 570-490 BC

The world we have made...

“The world we have made as a result
of the level of thinking we have done thus far,
creates problems we cannot solve at the same level
of thinking at which we created them.”

/Albert Einstein 1879-1955

A human being is...

“A human being is a part of the
whole called by us `Universe; a part
limited in time and space.

He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings as something separated
from the rest – a kind of optical
delusion of consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for
us, restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us.

Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison by widening our
circle of compassion to embrace all
living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beaty.”

/Albert Einstein 1879-1955

This is the true joy in life...

“This is the true joy in life, the
being used for a purpose recognized
by yourself as a mighty one, the
being a force of nature instead of a
fewerish little clod of ailments and
grievences, complaining that the
world will not devote itself to
making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life
belongs to the whole community
and as long as I live it is my
privilege to do for it what I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up
When I die, for the harder I work
The more I live.

I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a
Sort of splendid torch which I`ve got
To hold up for the moment. I want
To make it burn as brightly as
Possible before handing it on to
Future generations.”

/George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

At last...

When mankind sees, at last,
the folly of its present fascination
with violence and war, and discards the
means to carry out its acts of violence,
it will undergo a remarkable
transformation.

/Mästaren genom Benjamin Creme 2004

The greatest threat...

"The greatest threat to our world and its
peace comes from those who want war,
who prepare for it, and who, by holding out
vague promises of future peace or by instilling
fear of foreign aggression, try to make us
accomplices to their plans."

/Hermann Hesse 1877-1962

What has happened to man?

We are no better than we were fifty thousand years ago;
only we are more civilized, we have better bathrooms,
better means of killing others…

/Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895-1986

Kärlek...

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/Okänd

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