This reminds me of a passage from "Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance" that I love to quote: You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy

This reminds me of a passage from "Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance" that I love to quote: You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Just make yourself perfect and then paint naturally. That's the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest of your existence. If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren't working on your machine, what trap avoidances, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together. The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together.