#craft

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent one is he who can turn every task into his heart's delight.

Do not be anxious about results; focus entirely on the quality of your labor.

Let your daily labor be an offering of love.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

The master craftsman loves the tool, but honors the stone.

Irrigators channel water; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

What is done in love is done well.

The greatest art is the art of conscious living.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Let your daily work be an altar of conscious mastery.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

When the weaver works with devotion, every thread is woven with the name of the Divine; ordinary cloth becomes a sacred garment.

Cook Ding sliced through the ox with his blade finding the hollows and spaces between joints; his knife remained as sharp as if newly whetted.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.

The axe must strike the timber where the grain allows, not where stubborn fury commands.