It is loneliness that leads to thoughts, thoughts to curiosity, and curiosity to discovery and realisation.
posted by Once the Conman at 10:51 PM
In China, they say it is far better to travel a thousand miles than read 10,000 books. I believe them.
You could say it's an accident that I was ideally suited for the work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bowstring being pulled back for 24 years and suddenly being let go. I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos - especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom - external revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside, I start outside - reach the mental through the physical. I am a Libran - if astrology has anything to do with it... - JM
Love is right. It starts in my body and then moves to the sky. Every so-called mistake is sacred. Every false lead is a blessing that brings me closer to the real. I keep watching my illusions go up in flames, truth soon cools me in its indubitable way. I don't ask anybody how I should live my life. I just live it my way. I am not saying that I will not make mistakes, I will. But I will try not to make the same mistake again and again. That's enough. I'll try and find a new mistake every day, and make it. That is the only way to learn, that is the only way for me to come to my own inner light.
2 Comments:
inspired!
funny, i always wanted to write stories too.. in fact, i did write a really short one.. some time back.
may be i ll put it up too..
cheers!
Just got this comment through e mail...
"Hey!
I didn't want to write this on your page.. but really, Rohit, I thought you were smarter than this.
I really hope you don't take any of this the wrong way, but I take you as a very good friend, and
I just want to give you some honest advice right now.
It's fine to have posted your book online, but if you're really serious about writing books for a
career, and not just as a hobby, then you've got to be more fucking patient, man!
One, you can't wake up one day and decide you want to write a best-seller, and then three-months
later think you've written it. The whole game is about being patient... and you've got to play the game.
If you were rich enough to not care whether anyone prints your book or not, it would have been a
different matter. But you're not. And so your book doing well or not depends on who's printing it
and who's selling it. It's simple business.
You don't give up after two publishers and decide - if they don't want my book, they've got to be crazy.
You've got to try harder dammit.
This is what you want to do, isnt it - write books? If you've posted one online, what will stop you from
not caring about anything even later and posting the next and the next online as well. People will read
it, for sure, but I don't understand why you want to do this for free.
Anyway.. maybe I'm over-reacting as usual.. but I just thought you've worked on building this thing for
the past so many fucking years.. and you've just wasted it all by posting it online for free."
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