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learn a lesson, that it is good to attain to skill but it is not good to settle with it forever. Whenever the feeling arises in you that now the thing is looking stale, change it, invent something, add something new, delete something old. Again be free from the pattern -- that means be free from the skill; again become an amateur. That needs courage and guts, to become an amateur again, but that's how life becomes beautiful.
So never get fixed. Of course to be fixed has much security, because you know where you are -- you can depend on it, it is dependable, reliable. When you start something new it is not dependable. One never knows whether it will turn out right or wrong, whether one is going in a direction which will bring fulfillment or is moving into a cul-de-sac -- one never knows!
This path may not lead anywhere, you may just come to the end of the road. The old is known -- you have travelled on it, you can go easily, you can go with closed eyes. It does not create any anxiety; you are well-skilled in it.
So skill has something in it, and that is security. It misses something, and that is adventure. So all secure lives will be non-adventurous and all adventurous lives will be insecure.
If you really want to live, then remember: life is with insecurity, life is always when you are moving into something unknown, when you are always risking. It is a gamble! Then there is thrill, again and again there is thrill, and each day brings something surprising.
And that's how one should live -- because security means you have already died before your death.
Look at experts -- famous, world-famous experts -- you will always see that their eyes are dull and dead and that their faces have no glow. They go on doing things like robots. If they are replaced by a robot they will not be missed -- they were just mechanical.
So don't become mechanical. Your work is good. Find new ways in it, try new methods in it -- at the risk of being an amateur, at the risk of being laughed at, at the risk of being a failure. Sometimes you may fail. I am not saying that you may not fail -- with the new there is always danger -- but then there
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