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01:08You know, these big-box religions, they make no sense to me.
01:13The only ism I ever found compelling is the transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau,
01:20combined with Walt Whitman's more realist approach.
01:23A little less humility, please, and a bit more spirit.
01:38An artist is expected to go to the heights, the depths, the lengths, the breadth
01:45of his or her take on the world.
01:47That's the only value.
01:54Correct action is to live in the moment, to prepare by living prior moments,
02:00and then for the actor to push forward with instinct and knowledge into the unknown.
02:06Oh, it's kind of a jazz metaphor.
02:14In the workshop, we do a guided relaxation, put players in a meditative state,
02:19and then we work from a circle.
02:20We do the acknowledgement exercise, which is eye contact, player to player.
02:33How do you make it last?
03:00It reminded me of when I first came into the workshops.
03:03It was like a group of people that were already in sync to how to get into their emotions
03:09and then be comfortable with letting those out.
03:12Now, what about this phrase, the way things seem to be?
03:15In my view, wisdom begins when we encounter paradox and contradiction.
03:21And this is the realm of the arts, where easy answers, slogans, and religious zealotry have no place.
03:28The big corporate religions have misled us into a paradox,
03:32where the everyday people get to love and be just,
03:35and all the money and power go to the ruling closet.
03:38I hate the Trump gang of grifters and bag men, the ones who lie and teach us to like it.
03:44But that's politics, and politics is, as Thomas Paine said, a tragic necessity.
03:50Today, a growing shipwreck on purpose.
03:54And where are the lifeboats?
03:56Art and human kindness are the only lifeboats I know.
04:12And that's the way things seem to be, to me, right now.
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