To study business is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by everyone and everything.

In preparing for an entrepreneur ship class I’m teaching in a few weeks at UC Santa Cruz Extension, I was remembering that I began Brush Dance, thinking it was an environmental products mail order catalogue.

My 19-year-old daughter recently left me a copy of the book Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, asking me to return it to our local library. I picked it up to return it, on my way to run some errands, and instead began reading. I read the entire book (which took about three hours) and I felt moved and joyful. What a gem of a book!