When considering an undertaking...
Words 89 · RF@80 Series.
Photo: King Crimson 2000 Tour.
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When considering an undertaking...
Look at your motivation, clearly & dispassionately & impartially, as if towards your closest friend or brother. Why does he want this? What necessity does it hold for him?
If this is necessary for him, it will be possible.
If this is to get him something he wants for himself, it will be very hard.
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We rarely allow ourselves the time to digest our experience. Sometimes illness gives us an enforced opportunity.
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A pal e-mailed me in response to an article in The New York Times > Week in Review > Here to Stay: Balding Rockers and Big Mo: “Where the real money is made in music.” My pal comments to me it begs the Q: Where are the Lennons, Hendrix, Mozarts of today? Present and unheard/unrecognised? Or perhaps, at a more base level, something in the world has shifted, such that we don’t have the Newtons, DaVincis, or Einsteins, etc. either.
It might be that remarkable creative ability is no longer focused through individuals, but groups of people. This is one of the implicit ideas of working intentionally in groups.
[Excerpt from RF’s Diary – February 15h. 2005]
Interesting...so group teaching of the Alexander Technique is my future...it does seem people want to learn like this - I thought it was just a cost thing - maybe not. I had better get over my stage fright doing this!
Wise words, even 21 years later 👌