The Tao of Acting

We live in an era of enormous cynicism.

Do not be fooled by those who say we don't.

Don't act for money.

You'll start to feel dead and bitter.

Don't act for glory.

You'll start to feel dead, fat, and fearful.

We live in an era of enormous cynicism.

Do not be fooled by those say we don't.

You can't avoid all the pitfalls.

There are lies you must tell and lies you must endure being told to you or about you.

Experience the lie.

See it as something dead and unconnected that you clutch.

Then let it go.

Act from the depth of your feeling imagination.

Act for celebration.

Act for searching.

Act for grieving.

Act for worship.

Act to express that desolate sensation of wandering through the howling wilderness and the

very halls of bedlam itself.

Act not to escape that void of loneliness but rather to embrace it.

Don't worry about Art.

Do these things and it will become Art.

(Inspired by the words of John Patrick Shanley, Lao Tzu, and Me)