I think I might be one of those morally currupt lazy people Steven Fry (Sunday Telegraph 24 Oct 05) talked about in an interview over the weekend. I would like to spend time reading the post you linked to, but I don't have the time, of course I do, but I don't feel like I do or is it; I don't feel motivated to take the time I have the way I would like to take it and make it? I did read a fair bit, and I do think that we need passion, and that passion is driven by the idea or pursuit of perfection, but also that our passion should be disciplined. Sun Ra once said, "I'm not one of those free players (refering to the free jazz movement), I am about discipline, and if you want to play in my band, then you enter the Sun Ra jail, but then you can be really free." Freedom is making a choice, not being buffeted by circumstances, and making a choice depends upon percieving something you would like, something which is valid, not hallucinated, like the choice to smoke, is not a choice, its the pursuit of an illusion. Anyway, I am also reminded that in the Carlos C books, Don Juan constantly draws attention to the "awesome mystery" of the world. I think if you take the world for granted and think that it is only what appears in the constraints of daily life, then you will quickly be bored and there will be no passion. For me, passion is for possibility, it is indeed motivated by the perception of perfection and the decision to pusue it. Ohh I could go on, but also to add I liked his MP3 tracks..
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I think I might be one of those morally currupt lazy people Steven Fry (Sunday Telegraph 24 Oct 05) talked about in an interview over the weekend. I would like to spend time reading the post you linked to, but I don't have the time, of course I do, but I don't feel like I do or is it; I don't feel motivated to take the time I have the way I would like to take it and make it? I did read a fair bit, and I do think that we need passion, and that passion is driven by the idea or pursuit of perfection, but also that our passion should be disciplined. Sun Ra once said, "I'm not one of those free players (refering to the free jazz movement), I am about discipline, and if you want to play in my band, then you enter the Sun Ra jail, but then you can be really free." Freedom is making a choice, not being buffeted by circumstances, and making a choice depends upon percieving something you would like, something which is valid, not hallucinated, like the choice to smoke, is not a choice, its the pursuit of an illusion. Anyway, I am also reminded that in the Carlos C books, Don Juan constantly draws attention to the "awesome mystery" of the world. I think if you take the world for granted and think that it is only what appears in the constraints of daily life, then you will quickly be bored and there will be no passion. For me, passion is for possibility, it is indeed motivated by the perception of perfection and the decision to pusue it. Ohh I could go on, but also to add I liked his MP3 tracks..
pretty good piece ...
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