Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.
You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.
If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.
Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.
The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
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