I worked with a carpenter once who would recite huge passages from the Bhagavad Gita to me, and tell me that it wasn’t just for people in saffron robes selling flowers in the airport. I would gripe about my band and my career and he would say “Become attached to action, not the fruits of action…” later, he would say to me “Understand that to fail and to succeed are the same thing.”

I found it maddening trying to apply this to my musical career, and then it ended… for a while, it seemed like it was all over and I rested. The next time I held the lines from from the book up and my music up to the light together, I saw how they fit.

Now, I work when I have to and play music every day. Money comes and I’m happy.

AND I don’t ever wear a saffron robe.

BTW, Colm O’Reilly is a friend of mine. he sends his regards, esp he says “Hi, Billy!”

-patrick ferguson
http://www.patrickferguson.net