“From the age of six, I had a passion for copying the form of things and since the age of fifty I have published many drawings, yet of all I drew by my seventieth year there is nothing worth taking in to account. At seventy-three years I partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects and fishes, and the life of grasses and plants. And so, at eighty-six I shall progress further; at ninety I shall even further penetrate their secret meaning, and by one hundred I shall perhaps truly have reached the level of the marvelous and divine. When I am one hundred and ten, each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.”
–Katsushika Hokusai
I love this description of continuous growth and increasing mastery. Do you feel that in some aspect of your life, you’re doing a better job with time?
For happiness, an “atmosphere of growth” is crucial — of the Eight Splendid Truths, that’s part of #1.
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