Inner game.
Nice people.
Buddy Rich - what a guy! (language warning)
Bob Dylan in Chronicles (Vol. I):
"I was so absorbed in listening to him that I wasn't even aware of myself. What I had to work at, Mike [Seeger] already had in his genes, in his genetic makeup. Before he was even born, this music had to be in his blood. Nobody could just learn this stuff, and it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns...that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale...that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself."
Mickey Rourke ("Marv") in Sin City:
"Hell is waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here. But I'm out now. It took somebody who was kind to me getting killed to do it, but I'm out. I know exactly what I gotta do."
Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Astroboy, Monkey Dust, We Can Be Heroes.
Gary Catalano, "Tree" (Selected Poems 1973-1992):
When the stars
discharged their fumes
the trees knelt down
in the cleared space
of the head,
their shirts
full of birds
and the dry
inflammable stuff.
I was green
in the morning,
all green.
Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
"It's the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That's the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest of your existence. If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren't working on your machine, what trap avoidances, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together...
The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be 'out there' and the person that appears to be 'in here' are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together."
Which Characteristic From the Samurai Code Matches You Best? (You may find out your best trait)
Complete sincerity: You believe in being straightforward with others, and you expect the same from them. People would consider you a good listener, and one who is calm and mostly serious.
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