There Is Only One Decision You Need

Never Try To Stop The Thoughts. If You Try To Stop The Thoughts They Will Become Bigger And Greater And They Will Win. Because The Mind Appears To Be Very Powerful. Yet In Reality The Mind Does Not Exist. There Is No Mind. There Is No Such Thing As A Mind. So When You Sit In The Silence You Observe, You Watch, You Become The Witness.

The Job Of The Photographer, In My View, Is Not To Catalogue Indisputable Fact But To Try To Be Coherent About Intuition And Hope. This Is Not To Say That He Is Unconcerned With The Truth.

When Photographers Get Beyond Copying The Achievements Of Others, Or Just Repeating Their Own Accidental First Successes, They Learn That They Do Not Know Where In The World They Will Find Pictures. Nobody Does. Each Photograph That Works Is A Revelation To Its Supposed Creator.

There's Something Within You That Knows What To Do. There Is A Power Greater Than You That Knows How To Take Care Of You Without Your Help. All You've Got To Do Is To Surrender To It. Surrender Your Thoughts, Your Mind, Your Ego, To The Current That Knows The Way. It Will Take Care Of You. It Will Take Better Care Of You Than You Can Ever Imagine.

Larry Schwarm's Photographs Of Fire On The Prairie Are So Compelling That I Cannot Imagine Any Later Photographer Trying To Do Better. His Pictures Convince Us That Seemingly Far Away Events Are Close By, Relevant To Any Serious Person's Life.