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out are the rolling stones: they don't gather any moss. And it has nothing to do with the work itself -- it is just the tendency of the mind. Photography or painting or music, or dancing -- anything -- will come to the same point, and once you have made a pattern it will be repeated. This is really a sheer wastage of energies.
Go on working in it. If you are feeling stuck, that simply means that you have to explore new ways, new directions, new dimensions in it; and they are always there! Life is so mysterious that it is never finished. A man can go on working with a small thing and can devote his whole life to it and still there will be much to be explored after he has died.
This is the whole art of being a genius. The genius is just a little more stubborn than ordinary people, that's all. He does not listen to the mind -- he goes on hammering: he digs a hole.
A sufi master -- Jalaluddin Rumi -- once took his disciples to a field. There were eight holes in the field and no hole had any water; the whole field was wasted. The disciples asked, 'Master, why have you brought us here?'
He said, 'To teach you something. This farmer wants to dig a well. He digs eight feet, ten feet, then he gets fed up with it and he thinks that this place is not right; he is bored so he starts digging at some other place. He has done this work the whole year round -- he has destroyed the whole field and not a single hole has become a well. Now if he had dug at the same spot that well would have been one hundred feet deep.' Jalaluddin said to his disciples, 'Remember this -- the same applies to the inner world too.'
Just gather yourself together and don't try to find excuses -- simply start working with your total energy. From tomorrow morning start without thinking about it! Just go ahead, and within a few days it will be broken... and when it is broken, you will feel so thrilled. Whenever any plateau is broken, life takes on such a beauty and the work becomes such a joy. Then it is a second honeymoon and on a deeper level. And I am saying this to you to be remembered as a golden rule -- it is so in every way, in every direction of life. If you love
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