Use the Difficulty! Michael Caine I have one philosophy : “Use the Difficulty” What does that mean? When I was an young actor . I was rehearsing a play I had to come in the scene: Entering a flat : An husband and Wife arguing inside They were improvising the scene The husband throws a chair that lands in the doorway: Now I had to get in and could not I had to intervene and said: I am sorry sir , I cannot get in! Pat came the reply : “Use the difficulty” What do you mean? If its a comedy fall over the chair If its a drama, pick it up and smash it! There is no thing ever so bad that You cannot use that difficulty! Use it even 1% of your advantage. It won't let you down! Thats my philosophy: Use that difficulty!
Thinking begets effort ! Jiddu Krishnamurti Book of Life There is the mind : the receptor of senses Then there is the intellect : that analyzes, judges , discriminates and censors And then the “I” - Ego- that says This is bad ; I must throw this out This is good - I must keep this thought So you have this struggle The effort to put away thoughts Not to be wayward! We have in this very process of thinking Created the problem of effort Then you give birth to discipline , controlling thought The “I” controlling the thought Wehich is not good The “I” trying to be nonenvious , non-violent To be this and to be that So you have brought into being The very process of effort When there is th “I” And the thing that is controlling My note šJK seems to say : I dont have to overcome Ego - “I” Or need to have better Intellect - rein in my mind Rather I passively observe the reality That is all is necessary!