Sunday, March 30, 2008

Be your work....

".... if you want to do something well, whatever it may be, any kind of work, the least thing, play a game, write a book, do painting or music or run a race, anything at all, if you want to do it well, you must become what you are doing and not remain a small person looking at himself doing it; for if one looks at oneself acting, one is still in complicity with the ego. If, in oneself, if one succeeds in becoming what one does, it is a great progress. In the least little details, one must learn this. Take a very amusing instance: you want to fill a bottle from another bottle; you concentrate; well, as long as you are the bottle to be filled, the bottle, from which one pours, and the movement of pouring, as long as only you are this, all goes well. But if unfortunately you think at a given moment: " Ah it is going well, I am managing well", the next minute it spills over! It is the same for everything. That is why work is a good means of discipline, for if you want to do the work properly, you must become the work instead of someone who works, you will never do it well. ..."
-The Mother
You can follow this link to know about her http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother

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