At one of my AIESEC conferences long long time ago I received an interesting piece of inspirational paper called “THE ART OF PEACE”.
It has been hanging up on my wall for a few years now and I completely forgot about it. I guess I just got used to the paper on the wall. I also remember that I couldn’t apprehend the last verse of it till very lately.
A flash of insight hit me during business meeting with one of my clients who insisted on changing completely the conception I was working on for quite a while. All my (near to perfection) work “went to rack and ruin” but at the same time I discovered what does the last verse in question mean.
In this particular situation I had to remain calm. In order to do that I had to be empty as space, otherwise it would have been my last meeting with this client 
It is truly great to experience this flash of insight moments.
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TECHNIQUES EMPLOY FOUR QUALITIES
THAT REFLECT THE NATURE OF OUR WORLD.
DEPENDING ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES,
YOU SHOULD BE
HARD AS A DIAMOND
FLEXIBLE AS WILLOW
SMOOTH-FLOWING LIKE WATER
OR AS EMPTY AS SPACE
-MORIHEI UESHIBA, O’SENSEI - whole art
haha Thank you for inspiration.
I need to take a closer look at this paper next time. Your ability to create ‘action’ based on simple every-day moments is quite good.
When i dig out my old trash no so long time ago i also came accross the same paper.
Need to study it again and see what it will tell me nowadays.
Thanks for bringing good memories
cheers : )