Inspir.es

As anyone who’s gotten drunk and/or philosophical with me can attest, I like to talk about the Fourth World. Taken from a few paragraphs of text in You Shall Know Our Velocity, the Fourth World is described thus:

“Everyone is sleeping and we are here, in the sea. That is the fourth world. The fourth world is present and available.”

Today’s source of Fourth World wisdom comes from Benjamin Zander’s moving TED lecture.

“For me to join the B to the E I have to stop thinking about every single note along the way…this is about the long line, like the bird who flies over the field and doesn’t care about the fences underneath.”

So many complain about the mundane, the ordinary, the day to day. Your boss is an idiot, you were gone but five minutes and still (still!) you got a parking ticket, the waitress only checked back once and she wasn’t even smiling.

Fourth World is transcending these ultimately petty thoughts. Fourth World is flying over fences.