Rejuvenation


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Rejuvenation.



When life is good it seems that all things are good. The sky is clear the sun shines or you catch the beauty of a snowflake. Everything just seems to be as one, it would be possible to catch a feather on a fan. If it was any better, you would be making rainbow bubbles to light up the sky. Such is the feeling that comes from walking in harmony with the Tao.

Everything flourishes, each brush stroke adds to the beauty of the one before. Every line of the poem comes easily to the pen. Words flow from your mind to the paper. The creative juices flow like electricity through every fibre of your being.

In this state, things grow and there is a sense of rejuvenation.

One of the most amazing things of living in the Tao is this very knowledge of rejuvenation. The painting completed is good and you feel happy, but there will be yet another painting that may even be better. The poem written does not flow easily in the mind or on the tongue, worry not, there will be an opportunity to change it or to write it yet again this time better. 

In a few moments, the past will be no more and the door to the next adventure will be open. The sorrows and mistakes of the past can be left behind, and a better story told. Before us lies the future full of second chances but worry not of them instead enjoy to the full this beating second.

In the Tao, the creative person is given a million opportunities to be creative. 

Lao Tzu says this, "Rather than seeking wealth and praise. We should let ourselves be shaped by the Tao."

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