The Zen of the Midwest

A post to the host over at the Prairie Home Companion site asked Garrison Keillor for his famous Christmas quote, and he responded in kind:

"Craving only causes frustration, intense desire makes the object recede. If the game is really important, you're going to lose. If you're wildly in love, you're going to lose and you know it. The trick is to keep it from being that important. Be cool. Don't want it that much. Want it less. When you get to where you don't want it at all, then you're more likely to get it. And if you don't get it, you don't care so much."

As GK added afterwards - that one's so true sometimes that it hurts.