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When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

My name does help me get in the door, but it doesn't do the work for me.