Celebrity

Success for an artist comes when he lives in harmony with sound principles. An artist who eats good foods (and by that I mean real food–food that came direct from the earth) and sleeps moderately, who keeps reasonable hours and works with discipline and regularity, an artist who seeks to know himself through regular meditation and grounding exercises, and an artist who cares for his instrument by toning and exploring his muscular powers– such an artist cannot fail.

All human beings are in love with the idea of failure.

We want to fail. We plant seeds of failure in all the circumstances that surround us; if the seeds we plant fail to bring adequate misery, we begin to undermine our personal health. We feed ourselves constant criticism and negativity, and when we have reached a comfortable low, we begin to feed ourselves physical poisons.

If you owned a brand-new black Porsche, and you wanted that Porsche to break down, what would you do? You could smash it to bits with a sledgehammer, or push it off a cliff. You could drive it into the ocean, or put abrasive chemicals into the engine.

Now what if you wanted to break your Porsche, but you wanted to blame someone else for the breakage?

You would get sneaky.

You would put low-grade gasoline in the tank, and you would drive for too long without changing the oil. You would carefully nick the car on curbs, signs, and corners to dent up the body, and you would drive too quickly over speed bumps and dips to damage the undercarriage. You would screech at stop signs and swerve unexpectedly, and you might drive off-road to see what you could do to the brakes and the alignment. If the Porsche held up for too long, you would drive through water. When alarming sounds developed in the engine you would stay far away from a mechanic.

You get the picture. Eventually the car would not go, and you would stand beside it and talk about what a horrible car it was.

Isn’t that about what you’ve done to your life?

Why?

Everyone in the world who has not experienced Home– by Home I mean the unshakeable feeling of security that comes when someone loves and understands you in all extremities–

Everyone who has not experienced Home (and most of us have not) feels off-balance. Alone. Tired.

We give up on waiting for Home, and we grow tired of living without Home.

We assign the failure of Home-feeling on ourselves, and we punish ourselves accordingly.

Stop doing this.

If you have not experienced Home, it is because your parents were lonely and unhappy and had no Home themselves. Don’t blame them and don’t blame yourself. Understand them and change yourself. It is never too late to make the Home feeling, and it is never too late to bring Home to the people around you– particularly to your family, who needs it the most.

If you want to feel Home, live in accordance with sound principles. Have faith that you are a Porsche; treat yourself like one. It is easy to care for a high-powered machine. The only hard part about life is believing that you are as wonderful and magnificent as you really are.

Start believing. It gets easier over time because as you treat yourself well, you will begin to perform well. You will have evidence of the wonderful person you are, but only once you give yourself a chance.

Bring Home into yourself, and people around you will become addicted to your presence. You want unbelievable success as an actor? Find Home.

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