Talking with Sonam today the question was this: How can you improve if the advice is: “Do nothing. Don’t try to improve.”
Improvement is good. But improvement implies goals and directions, markers and measures. And we are awash in those, made sick by our obsession with them.
Can we even imagine a meeting with no plan? Not worrying about where we are or where we're going?
Imagine fifty gun lovers and fifty gun control advocates in a room together. You say, “Let’s improve the gun situation in America.” How long before everyone come to blows?
Better to mix and mingle and only share stories of grandchildren and granparetns.
Better to trade favorite recipes.
Better to do anything than to add to the problem, “to improve.”
Better to do nothing?
Better to say it as Charlie does:
a heart
that holds
nothing
knows
home
and
the
way
there.