Zen Seeds #40

So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever.
Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years:¹

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 5. You are responsible for your own experience.

Creativity is unobtrusive.
Or it whacks you in the stomach and you exhale
so quickly
you wonder if you'll ever inhale again.

 7. Keep your day job.

Breathing may be a creative activity.
Eating begins with bread.
Then you search for gravy.

14. Dying young is overrated.

Just say no.
Safely.
Experimentally
enhancing
love.

Do-overs
may
happen.

May
be.

17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't.

Butterflies are over rated.
They float.
Flit.
Passion is a bee
line
straight
to the nectar.

22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself.

Nourish your
self.
Fill your
heart.
That is art
enough.

27. The best way to get approval is not to need it.

If you seek,
you lose.
Sometimes.

You win
when you
don't care
if the bread lands
butter up
or butter down.

You're just happy
there is bread
and there is
butter.

Yum.
RD Savage
07/26/06
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