Wolfgang Hammer

That it's safe to die and that you're worthy of love.

By saying that in the end, every story is a metaphor.

So you want to couch all these absolute truths revealed in a subjective way in metaphors that don't spell it out directly, but convey their meaning through something that's close, but not the thing itself.

He had this wonderful way of repeating back to you the absurdity of your beliefs and laughing at them.

So you would be laughing at these absurd constructs that these stories that you've come up with and believe to be fundamentally true, mainly because you hadn't done the work of just saying, well, what do you really believe?

Once you do that, it's your ultimate concern and it's your bedrock.

And you can refer back to that at any given time, usually every five minutes, when you have to communicate and make a decision of some kind.

And it gives you confidence.

And there is a guy that I really like, this guy, John O'Donoghue,

Talks a lot about Meister Eckhart, who had this concept of Gelassenheit, which is the letting go of all intent.

Simply experience the divine nature that's already in you by the pure fact that you're alive.

And once you realize that, all else is an afterthought.

And I think that's probably what Don Rosenthal communicated to me in a visceral way.

I thought about this.

There's so many people that I owe a lot to, but I know that it's my wife who married me.

I think that probably is the kind of thing.