Wisdoms
KeithHandy posted in Featured Posts on October 2nd, 2007
Selected excerpts from my inner dialogues, which might be helpful to you:
We can’t help you get everything right, because it would be out of character for you. Just enjoy playing the part!
When we’re in waking reality for too long, we latch onto the known and forget to consider the unknown.
There is absolutely nothing blocking you in the physical universe.
Some milestones go unapplauded. Other times people are too easily impressed. Some things get lost in the translation. Let go of how others value your work.
The world around you isn’t opposing your music [or whatever is relevant to you]; it has given you tools and inspiration.
When you seem to have a lot of incompetent people around you, remember there are always competent guides with you.
What’s the best possible thing you can do with the money you have?
Name something that would be really cool if six billion people did it. Now do it, and don’t worry about everyone else.
Music is a spiritual sandbox, where we can play with heavy magic.
Just by sheer virtue of doing it at all, it will be interesting.
You’re a damn fine table leg. You just need some other legs to hold up the other end of the table.
You can find inspiration in deprivation, or you can find it while rummaging; you just won’t find it right there at the blank canvas.
Believing God can only speak to us through one medium is like believing a musician can only play one instrument.
Telling me I’m stuck in the past is like telling a bird he’s stuck in the sky.
Appreciate the hell out of what you have.
Never touch something without improving it.
Listen twice — once to hear it, and once to feel it.
It’s not to make it happen so much as to allow it … because it already can happen. The potential for it is already out there. You just need a place to put it, so when it shows up, you can keep it.
Animals rule the world. They’re just letting us borrow it.
There are some dragons that, the more you confront them, the bigger they get.
“I’m sorry” is okay, but “thank you” is better.
If music is your religion, practice it in a way that sets a good example for other religions.
Ask yourself why you want it. Keep asking why.
See the spiritual in the mundane.
It’s easy to forget that your emotional state reflects your thoughts and actions, not anyone else’s.
People aren’t ignoring you; they’re struggling to sift through information overload.
Some people will judge you unfairly. They don’t represent the whole of the human race.
The noble failure manifesto: 1. Every little thing that goes right is pure gold. 2. Don’t worry about opening doors; just get into the knocking. 3. Having a “labor of love” is enviable in its own right. 4. Failure is always specific, never general.
You can’t get to the top through the middle; you have to go around the outside.
If you keep building your sentences out of the same set of words, your thoughts won’t evolve very far.
More to be added as they come…
