"We can never be sure that the magician we are portraying will meet with success. It’s a roll of the dice. You organize as many of your dreams as you can and you hope that others will find what you’ve concocted of value. But we never know how things will come out in advance. This is why the performance (of anything) requires that we take real risks—which is easy to say in words but much more difficult to apply in practice. Taking risks requires courage.

But who is this "me" who is hoping to entertain you? Is it the same me that shops at the grocery store and drops his clothes off at the dry cleaners? Is the me that is standing in front of a group and performing the Burned and Restored Thread, speaking while I do it about Hindu gods and the creation and destruction of the universe, the same me that orders food in a restaurant or flags down a taxicab?

Yes and no........ "

EUGENE BURGER


I meditated on this for a long time...

Is that from "Growing in the art of magic?"

I remember the quote. Good food for thought.

Mentalism needs more thinkers like Mr. Burger, thanks for sharing that.

It's so easy to hear that in his voice.

Actually its a quote from one of Eugene Burger's essays published in Genii Magasine called "Being Me". The whole essay is a tresure actually!

The best way to be in character all the time is to always be yourself or an extension of oneself

So true! You can imagine him touching his beard and saying "Yes and No..."!!!