Wishes - Akira the Don

Genie is the root word for genius

And it’s a really interesting idea because there’s this unlimited power that’s

associated with genius, but it’s constrained

And that’s really what the human spirit is like

'Cause it has this aspect of the infinite

And it is something that can grant wishes

But it’s also constrained, terribly

I don’t ask God for favors

Or for wishes

Or for wishes

You know?

I don’t ask God for favors

Or for wishes

Or for wishes

You know?

We’re constrained mortally and physically and all that but the thing is, is that

Both the infinite possibility and the constraint are necessary

That’s what maks up the genie, it has to b both at the same time

And the idea that, you know, if you find your genie

You can have your wishes, that’s right

You have to really want what you’re wishing for

Or you have to make the proper sacrifices to get it

It can’t be just some whim

You have to ask for something that you would rather not have

Which is usually wisdom

Somebody asked me about prayer

They asked me if I prayed and I thought, well, depends on what you mean by that,

exactly

I don’t ask God for favors

Or for wishes

Or for wishes

You know?

I don’t ask God for favors

Or for wishes

Or for wishes

You know?

But I do think that if you sit on the edge of your bed

And you ask

What foolish thing you’re doing to make it worse

That you’ll get an answer, right now

And it won’t be the one you want

But it might be the one that if you listened to would set things straight

I don’t think that I’ve ever been in this situation where

If something wasn’t going right for me and I sat and thought;

«Okay, huh,

I’m willing to figure out what I’m doing wrong.»

Which is a big thing to think because you never know how much you’re doing

wrong it might be something that you really don’t wanna contend with

But if you clear some space to meditate on that

The probability that you’ll figure out something that you did that was stupid

that’s bending you and twisting you in the wind

You’ll get an answer very, very rapidly

I don’t ask God for favors

Or for wishes

Or for wishes

You know?

I don’t ask God for favors

Or for wishes

Or for wishes

You know?

And it’s not obvious how you do that

You know, I mean it’s not like you know how you’re manipulating your neurons or

something

It happens of its own accord in some sense like you can participate in it,

I guess and you can interfere with it and it seems to take a certain amount of

willpower

But it still all happens mysteriously behind the scenes

And I would say this sort of attitude towards, let’s say, prayer that we’re

discussing is just an extension of that, it’s something like

Well, you admit that there’s a problem first

And then you ask for the minimum necessary intervention which would be,

all right

Well, I’d like to move forward on this

Some small amount that someone like me could actually manage

I’d be willing to carry it out and then you reorient the way you’re thinking as

a consequence of that and something usually pops out of the abyss

To guide you, very strange

But it’s not really any stranger than the fact that we can think at all

Because the fact that we can think is actually very strange

Strange like the fact that we can dream is strange

And that’s strange beyond belief

That you can dream or that something in you dreams

Which is a much better way of thinking about it because it’s not like you’re

really in control of your dreams

I don’t ask God for favors

Or for wishes

Or for wishes

You know?

I don’t ask God for favors

Or for wishes

Or for wishes

You know?