Accepting.


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 Accepting.



A well-known saying tells us that for everything there is a time and a season. Lao Tzu said, "There is a time for all things. Time for motion and a time for rest. A time to be vigorous and time to be tired."

For every person involved in the creative arts, there is a time to stop. To know when something has reached the point where it can be bettered no more. A time to cast off or lay down the brushes. A time to lay aside the tools and appreciate the work that has been done.  If you try to improve it or change it you may, in fact, ruin that which is already good.

Learning how to produce things of beauty takes time and much effort. Learning when it is time to admit that you can go no further takes so much longer to learn. Many things have been spoiled because this lesson has not been learned.

The Tao Te Ching asks us if we think we can change the universe? The answer given is, "It cannot be done." The universe is as it is, sacred.

We need also to learn that there will be times when we will feel good about what we have accomplished and should rejoice in being so but there will also be times when we will feel down. We have to learn that difficult lesson of accepting that things will not always be as we would wish.

But this should never be permitted to restrict the creative process. There is a time to rest and a time to proceed. Such is the way of the Tao.

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