"We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art."

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Source: The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42 : 11/26/63-4/8/64 by Seth, Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts, The Early Sessions: Book 8, Session 388, (p. 158), 1997.

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