Friday, March 29, 2024

Use the Difficulty!

 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! 


In the book "The Upanishads" by Eknath Eswaran

Michael Nagler writes the following in his commentary


Whether we live in the Forest Ashram

or Las Angeles Downtown

the job of being Human means

learning to convert our inherited tendencies

from problems into positive forces!!!



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