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There's Something Within You That Knows What To Do. There Is A Power Greater Than You That Knows How To Take Care Of You Without Your Help. All You've Got To Do Is To Surrender To It. Surrender Your Thoughts, Your Mind, Your Ego, To The Current That Knows The Way. It Will Take Care Of You. It Will Take Better Care Of You Than You Can Ever Imagine.

Let Go Of The Thoughts, Let Go Of The Mind, Let Go Of Everything. Let Go! Drop It! Drop Everything. Hold Onto Nothing.

Never Try To Stop The Thoughts. If You Try To Stop The Thoughts They Will Become Bigger And Greater And They Will Win. Because The Mind Appears To Be Very Powerful. Yet In Reality The Mind Does Not Exist. There Is No Mind. There Is No Such Thing As A Mind. So When You Sit In The Silence You Observe, You Watch, You Become The Witness.

You Can't Talk About Life Without Talking About Politics. You Have To Have Both. If You're Just A Political Person, You're Going To Burn Out. If You, As An Artist, Are Just Focused Inward, You're Going To Eventually Be Irrelevant.

Little Wonder That We. . .find The Old Pictures Of Openness - Pictures Usually Without Any Blur, And Made By What Seems A Ritual Of Patience - Wonderful. They Restore To Us Knowledge Of A Place We Seek But Lose In The Rush Of Our Search. Though To Enjoy Even The Pictures, Much Less The Space Itself, Requires That We Be Still Longer Than Is Our Custom.