Meditation With the Earth
- Tanya Torres
- 5 days ago
- 1 min read
I have been working on this painting for several weeks. Each time adding color or detail until it seems finished. It never really seems finished! But it’s got to be all done at some point. It’s time to stop.
We tend to look at our completed work as somewhat lacking. It always needs more. But years later, when we come back to it, and reencounter it, we inevitably realize that it was done and it was beautiful. We couldn’t recognize our achievement because we were looking too closely and too critically, rather than accepting it as what it was.
It’s about looking back from the perspective of experience.
It’s a good practice to recognize that the effort we put into our work is valid, and that, while nothing is perfect, the fact that we have put in the work is what qualifies us to keep moving forward.
The more we do something, the better we get. Along the way, we become stronger. We become more trusting in ourselves. There is no masterpiece without doing many good, average and bad non-masterpieces.
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