What Do You Want? What Do You Have to Do to Get It? Can You Pay the Price?

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Harry Roberts was a friend and teacher of mine while I lived at Zen Center’s Green Gulch Farm. He was fond of saying that life is very simple — all you have to do is answer three questions: 1) What do you want? 2) What do you have to do to get it? And 3) Can you pay the price? After stating these questions he would usually laugh heartily, saying, yeah, real simple; most people don’t ever ask themselves the first question.

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