How to discover beauty in everyday laundry!

July 26, 2010

the beauty of laundry

A young girl aged six asked her mama to tell her what she did at the university where she went every day.

“I am in the art department. I teach people how to draw and paint,” replied her mother.

Astonished, the girl inquired,

“You mean they forget?”

excerpt from the book by Jack Kornfield, How to find the beauty in the act of “After the Ecstasy, the Laundry”

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Filed in artwork, creating, creativity, creativity techniques, imagination, imaging, intuitive, life as art, motivation, observing, ordinary, painting, perception, quote

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One Response to “How to discover beauty in everyday laundry!”

Nina Says:

July 27, 2010 at 8:42 pm
“Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.” –Zen Proverb

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