Sangha of Auspicious Companions

What the Glitter Couldn’t Give Me

When Rudy Karsan sold his company for over a billion dollars, he took a picture of the check, called the banker, and felt nothing. The elation never arrived. Instead, he cried every night for three weeks — the longest he had ever wept. What followed was a radical unraveling: he sold the Ferrari, threw away fifty trophies, moved with three boxes and his clothes. The man who had gone bankrupt three times chasing what he calls “glitter” discovered something unexpected in the emptiness. “The pathway to joy, for me, turned out to be three words: I don’t know,” he writes. Each time he says it, a warm feeling opens — he becomes a child again, curious, undefended. Now he asks every entrepreneur about their perception of death before investing. Joy, he’s learned, is the only currency you can’t bank. You’ve got to earn it every day.

Be The Change

Today, practice saying “I don’t know” when someone asks you something — not as evasion, but as genuine curiosity. Notice what opens inside you when you release the need to have the answer.