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Life is a very, very simple matter, which we make very, very complicated.

And the whole purpose of a beautiful life of beautiful existence

is to get it back to its simplicity but that doesn't mean that you live out somewhere and own

nothing and have no relationships and create a simplicity like that. This simplicity we're talking about

is not that. It is your relationship with life that it's all about. It's not about what life

is doing. Life is always doing something. No matter where you are, whenever you look,

there will be something going on. If it'll put you in Paris, front of you, there's something going on, look to the right, there's something else going on, look to the left of something else going to pick you up, put you in Yugoslavia, look to the right, there's something going on, no matter where I put you, put you on Mars, put you on Saturn, no matter where you are, there's something going on. So it's not a matter of what's going on,

because there's always something going on. It's not about what life is doing. That's the folly.

It's about what you're doing and your relationship to what life is doing. And that's,

if I could make you write something now,

to make you write that down, put it on your refrigerator.

It is not about what life is doing.

It is about what you are doing with what life is doing.

Because life is doing something everywhere.

You're not going to stop it from doing what it's doing.

You don't know what it's going to be doing, all right?

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