Ernie Thayer

One of the wonders of my discovery of a way of life that’s so easy is that getting there is easy too. What’s really hard is the insistence by my old way of living that it can help! It can’t. It just bashes my head against the window. I see the light outside, but I can’t do anything but “try” to get there. It’ll never work. The bee is the problem, not the solution. So the bumble bee imagery breaks down now: actually the problem is the bee itself. In a human life, when the ‘me-bee’ quits trying because it realizes it can’t get outside, the open window is right there! It is the whole human being who escapes; the unfortunate carcass of the ‘me-bee’ is left behind (to do the taxes, maintain the car and, if it’s lucky, make music!).