Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.
If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.
It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.
Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.
Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.