The giant pine tree
grows from a tiny sprout.
The journey of a thousand miles
starts from beneath your feet. –Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu, (Translated by Stephen Mitchell)
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.” -Saint Augustine
“The work reveals itself as you go.” -Rick Rubin, book The Creative Act: A Way Of Being
Deciding to make your art is a giant leap of faith. You have no idea if it will work out, let alone all the steps you need to get there.
The good news is that you don’t need to know all the steps.
You just need to know (or believe in) one…The next faithful step.
And then take it.
Trust that after you take it, the next faithful step will then reveal itself.
And so on and so on.
Until you’ve reached the end of your creative journey. Looking back, you’ll have no idea how you got there. It was just the culmination of a thousand faithful steps.
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