Kelsey Grammer
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Yeah, well, you're a very, very successful person. You have all those habits of people who are. We do think we're supposed to do it. We forget how often someone else is doing it for us. And that the burden need not be ours. I heard this a while ago. There was one of those radio guys talking a sermon. I dial in once in a while in the car. I go between news and religious channels.
the guy said take my yoke upon take my yoke upon thee and I thought I always thought that meant oh I'm supposed to carry something for Jesus like I'm supposed to take that yoke and you know be responsible for it and the guy said don't you get it he's saying We'll do this together. It's a two oxen yoke. It's a double. You got it on you. I've got it on me. Take mine on you, and I'll do the pulling.
the guy said take my yoke upon take my yoke upon thee and I thought I always thought that meant oh I'm supposed to carry something for Jesus like I'm supposed to take that yoke and you know be responsible for it and the guy said don't you get it he's saying We'll do this together. It's a two oxen yoke. It's a double. You got it on you. I've got it on me. Take mine on you, and I'll do the pulling.
You don't have to. I'd never heard it put quite that simply, but that's exactly what I did here at that one point finally.
You don't have to. I'd never heard it put quite that simply, but that's exactly what I did here at that one point finally.
I think it's just practice, honestly. I think you just have to acquaint yourself with the possibility that stepping into this universe, which is a causal universe, there is a cause and an effect. You're on some path. There is something else with you. There is an energy that's here. We came to... to bask in it, to be part of it, to feel it sort of around us all the time.
I think it's just practice, honestly. I think you just have to acquaint yourself with the possibility that stepping into this universe, which is a causal universe, there is a cause and an effect. You're on some path. There is something else with you. There is an energy that's here. We came to... to bask in it, to be part of it, to feel it sort of around us all the time.
And it is around us all the time. We can close our ears to it. We can close our eyes to it. We can fight it. And all those things are probably the right choice at this time, which is pretty interesting because you discover yourself and then you realize, oh, you're still there. Oh, still there. Okay, well then... Maybe I should relax about it a little bit. It doesn't mean surrender.
And it is around us all the time. We can close our ears to it. We can close our eyes to it. We can fight it. And all those things are probably the right choice at this time, which is pretty interesting because you discover yourself and then you realize, oh, you're still there. Oh, still there. Okay, well then... Maybe I should relax about it a little bit. It doesn't mean surrender.
I don't believe you should surrender to certain things. I think there is that moment in life when you realize, oh, here it comes. I'm just going to let this happen and see what comes next. But mostly, we are given authorship. We are entitled to be the author of what we want to do. We either buck what we've been told or we buck other people. A lot of people tell us, oh, you'll never make it.
I don't believe you should surrender to certain things. I think there is that moment in life when you realize, oh, here it comes. I'm just going to let this happen and see what comes next. But mostly, we are given authorship. We are entitled to be the author of what we want to do. We either buck what we've been told or we buck other people. A lot of people tell us, oh, you'll never make it.
That's a gauntlet for me. That's, oh, yeah, well, just watch this. But the other still small voice that is always there is if you just take a minute to ask. Matthew, again, I go back to Matthew. It's the first book of the Bible I read that I started to really pay attention to when I was pretty young. But, you know, knock and it shall be opened unto you. Ask and ye shall receive.
That's a gauntlet for me. That's, oh, yeah, well, just watch this. But the other still small voice that is always there is if you just take a minute to ask. Matthew, again, I go back to Matthew. It's the first book of the Bible I read that I started to really pay attention to when I was pretty young. But, you know, knock and it shall be opened unto you. Ask and ye shall receive.
It's pretty powerful. So all you really have to do is enumerate a question, a desire, a longing, whatever it might be. And the universe, God, will do everything he can to make it happen for you.
It's pretty powerful. So all you really have to do is enumerate a question, a desire, a longing, whatever it might be. And the universe, God, will do everything he can to make it happen for you.
And seek and you shall find.
And seek and you shall find.
It's a double-edged sword, though, the grief book comment. Because when I first spoke to the people who represent me, I was about 50 pages in. And I said, I'm writing this book about my sister. They made assumptions about it.
It's a double-edged sword, though, the grief book comment. Because when I first spoke to the people who represent me, I was about 50 pages in. And I said, I'm writing this book about my sister. They made assumptions about it.
I said, well, a grief book's, you know, maybe 100 pages long, and, you know, they're usually sort of little pamphlets, and, oh, we do this and that, and then maybe we get a publisher. And I thought, boy, that is just the most sort of dismissive, unresponsive, irresponsible relationship I've ever been in with an agent.