Life doesn’t happen to you it happens for you. Sometimes I think that’s the only thing that’s important really, just letting each other know we  are here, reminding each other that we are part of a larger self. You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness, a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities. On the other side of that door there is a world starving for new ideas, new leadership. I’ve been out there for 30 years. It can be rough out there but that’s ok. Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you’ve got to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts , worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here and the decisions we make in this moment which are based on either love or fear. Many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect so we never dare to ask the universe for it. I’m saying I’m the proof that you can ask the universe for it. You can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. I watched the effect of my father’s love and humor and how it altered the world around me and tough that’s something to do, that’s something worth my time. I realized one night in L.A. that the purpose of my life has always been to free people from concern. How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.    The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen  in all of your glory I’ve often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that its not where you’re gonna find your sense of completion. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul. A unified field of nothing dancing for no particular reason except maybe to comfort and entertain itself. Imagination is always manufacturing scenarios both good and bad and ego tries to keep you trapped in the multiplex of the mind. Our eyes are not viewers, they are also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script and the working title is “I’ll never be enough”. No matter what you gain ego will not let you rest. It will tell  you , you cannot stop until you have left an indelible mark on the Earth, until you have achieved immortality. Relax and dream up a good life It’s just about letting the Universe know what you want  and working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. Your job is not to figure out how its gonna happen for you, but to open the door in your head and when the door opens in real life just walk through it and don’t worry if you miss your queue there are always doors opening . They will keep it open. A chance for faith. Not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar, Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it. You are ready and able to do beautiful things in the world. It’s our intention, our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention. I was little kid I would sit there and I would try to figure out what it meant “What is was about?”, “ Why are we here?”,  “What is this?” and one day I read something from Buddha that said “ All spirituality is about relieving suffering” . There are generations growing up right now who are learning to lie, that lying is ok, that you are supposed to hate half the country. You have to get back to a place where we realize that a vote is not who you are. What are we doing?   Why are we building these abstract scaffolding’s of who we are? I’m a Canadian- American and I’m this and I’m that and I’m a Catholic and I’m that and it’s all abstract stuff and when you drill down there is no “ you” left . I really cherish that and we are all one thing. Freedom comes in there only being one “you” and it includes the table, the computer, the ocean and the trees. Try to breathe without them, you can’t. I was in my studio painting in New York one time I took a walk for a couple of blocks and I found this wonderful little park where these guys were playing soccer. I watched these guys play soccer, I watched this guy chasing the ball and I went “That’s it!” I was compelled by that guy who was so involved with getting the ball. All sportswork, all artworks are on the same level and that is presence. Meisner, one of the tenets of his technique is that if you are actually interested in what you are doing you’ll be interesting to watch. And that’s why we watch babies because they discover things for the first time. No one gets through this life It’s too challenging and there is too much stuff coming at us. We don’t have the bandwidth to handle it. We have to find ways to escape it, we have to turn the gadgets off, we have to find moments in nature. Meditation is helpful, really helpful. Anything that doesn’t work out I was thinking of as this is the way it was supposed to be, that’s the way it was supposed to happen, because there is something bigger down the road. I’m finding that people are for the most part accepting of another kind of way of looking at things or letting go of character. I do believe in the manifestation power of that kind of stuff but I don’t believe that any of it matters. This “ mattering” is to me a human construct born out of a need to same need as you have to have deities and things like that . I believe in the energy of God, everything is divine. Part of the evolution of ego has been to spend the first half of your life acquiring and adding, thinking you can add to yourself and it looks great when you’ve got a cool car and you’ve got good nice cloths and you’ve done something that people admire, but never fulfill you, you can never be happy. It’s not where happiness comes from. The feeling of wholeness is a different feeling that “me”ness. I don’t exist. They were all characters that I played, I played a guy that was free from concern, so people who watched me would be free from concern. I’m not trying to tell people how to live their lives I’m just having fun, trying to transmit that to the audience and trying to get people to feel that